A Seduction in Silk (Xcite Romance) by Munday Constance

Author:Munday, Constance [Munday, Constance]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Xcite Books
Published: 2012-05-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

IMOGEN WAS AFRAID AND Adele Weinberger only added to her nervousness by knocking on her door that morning to say she’d seen a man on the corner of the street. Imogen leant against the door with her lips pinched and her arms crossed defensively. ‘Are you absolutely sure?’

‘I saw him once or twice before.’ Adele nodded her steel grey head.

‘And what was he like?’

‘I think it’s him, Imogen, he was a broad man built like a wrestler and he had a dark coat and a hat, just like you said.’

‘Did you see his face?’

Adele paused. ‘Yes. He had a mean face with one lip twisted up, like he had a permanent grimace or something.’

Imogen sagged against the door. There was nothing for it, when Adele left she tidied up the flat and she put all her clothes into her old suitcase and took the steamer trunk off the top of her wardrobe. Then she went downstairs to the telephone in the hall and she called Helga Streiber to say she wouldn’t be along to see Anni that Saturday because there had been a storm. This was a prearranged message for the reappearance of Louis.

‘Mrs Streiber how is Anni?’ she asked breathlessly.

‘Anni has a little cold,’ Helga said.

‘Can you put her on the phone?’ Imogen’s hand were shaking as she waited, twisting the cord in her hands.

‘Mummy, is that you?’

‘Yes, darling it’s me.’

‘Are you coming to see me, this weekend?’

Imogen was tangling the cord so hard around her fingers she was cutting off the blood supply. ‘No darling. Mummy has to move house.’

‘But, Mummy!’ She snuffled. ‘You always come on a Saturday.’

It broke Imogen’s heart not to see her, but it was too dangerous.

‘When I do come I’ll bring you something special, how’s that?’

When she got back on the phone to Helga Streiber she lowered her voice, ‘Helga I need you to listen carefully. I think this time Louis really has found me.’

She heard Mrs Streiber’s sharp intake of breath. ‘God how?’

‘I don’t know. I’ve thought it for a while because someone’s been hanging around and following me. What should I do? I’m so worried I can’t think straight.’

‘Get out,’ Helga said. ‘Come here and stay a while.’

Imogen was still threading the cord through her fingers. ‘I can’t, I mean, he could follow me there. I dare not.’

Helga was silent. ‘I see your point. However, you can’t keep running away from this oaf forever.’

‘I realise that.’ She was biting her lip. ‘Just look after Anni. I’ll have to think.’ When she put the phone down she pressed her back to the wall and slithering down against it, she burst into tears.

Anni lived with Helga Streiber and it was a good arrangement because she was safer there, away from Louis. Louis had been a crazy man.

Imogen had been modelling lingerie at a classy hotel when she met Louis. She’d had a good job as a supervisor in a lingerie company and one day one of the models had fallen ill. Despite

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