Avalon Red by Mark New

Author:Mark New [New, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Dinner was, of course, delightful and interesting. Taylor had no news to report from Argonaut other than that there was intense activity amongst the team and that Jason had summoned Dr Martin’s senior team members to a meeting with him tomorrow. I was just glad that it kept everyone out of my way for a while. For my part, I was suitably vague about what I was doing and what progress I’d made and Taylor didn’t push me on it. That left the time free to talk of inconsequential matters such as Taylor’s future plans for acting superstardom. She was quite pleased that I’d looked up her dramatic appearances in the Online vir-show databases and said that she hoped to work with some of the actors and directors again. I made a point of not mentioning that she had only seemed to work for one production company in her career to date and not in particularly leading roles. I was pretty sure that I knew where her career was headed and it wasn’t into the stratosphere of fame and fortune. Nevertheless, some of her stories of events on vir-sets were highly entertaining and she would probably make a successful raconteur on chat shows should the entertainment business find itself short of one. In fact, there were enough laugh-out-loud moments that it led me to hope that one day she could meet Avalon Red so that I could watch them indulging their respective senses of humour.

Without prompting, the Maître D’ delivered the same order of after-dinner drinks as we had previously enjoyed. As we savoured them I asked Taylor how well she knew Jason. It was the kind of casual question that wasn’t out of place when one person finds out that someone with whom they are well acquainted knows someone famous and she didn’t seem at all suspicious when she answered. She said she didn’t know him well as mostly she was liaising with Jason’s PA but she had met him enough times to know that he was brilliant and seemed quite driven to succeed.

‘Unlike George?’

She thought about it before she answered. ‘I don’t think he’s driven in the same commercial sort of way,’ she said. ‘He seems more concerned with looking after Jason than what’s happening with Argonaut itself. He’s very focused on security only because it’s important to his brother.’

‘George is the elder of the two, isn’t he?’

‘Yes, by about two years or so, I think.’ That fitted with the information I’d seen Online.

‘So this systems breach is of great concern to him because of the possible effect on Jason rather than Argonaut’s financial worth?’

‘It seems that way. Why doesn’t Becky like you?’ The question came out-of-the blue but I suspected that she’d carefully planned to throw it in bluntly to catch me off guard. It was the sort of thing I would do myself so I was moderately impressed. I’m also old and highly experienced in interrogation techniques so it failed to discomfit me at all.

‘Doesn’t she?’ I asked mildly.

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