Flirting With Danger by Jade Winters

Author:Jade Winters
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Publisher: Wicked Winters Books
Published: 2016-10-01T03:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

For the moment, Astrid forgot about Callie and their impromptu rendezvous. As well as the shock of seeing Keri at the B&B. She had to focus on work now. There would be plenty of time for play later. Sat on a wall across the road from Meadow Hill High School. Astrid stared straight ahead, not taking her eyes off the gate for a second. At one time, a man would have easily stood out from the crowd of pupils hustling and bustling their way out onto the street. But most of the male students were well over five feet nine going on six foot. If it wasn’t for their tell-tale school blazers, she would have been at a loss. Finally. Astrid eased herself gently off the wall when she recognized the man’s face she had seen on Facebook. Luke Harbour. Forty years old. Geography teacher for the past ten years. He was a handsome man with shoulder length dark hair, blue eyes and a smile that could charm the birds out of the tree. He had a natural rock star look about him and Astrid could fully understand why teenage girls would go weak at the knees for him.

Pulling her coat tighter across her chest she crossed the road and followed him, limping a few feet behind. She didn’t want to confront him when there were so many people around. From experience, she knew people were more likely to speak to her when they were away from prying eyes.

Head bowed, eyes glued to his mobile phone, Luke took a sharp left at the next turning, stopping to tap something into his phone. It was now Astrid decided to approach him. Stealthily, she crept up behind him. The pain in her ankle now forgotten.

‘Luke Harbour,’ she said as a car passed by drowning out her voice.

For a second Astrid thought he hadn’t heard her. Just as she opened her mouth to speak again, Luke turned to face her with a distracted look.

‘How’d you know my name?’

‘Astrid. From The Daily News.’ She took out her ID and flashed it at him. She always felt like a police officer when she did that. ‘I wonder if I can have a quick word with you.’

‘About what?’

‘Lexi—’

His features hardened. ‘I’ve got nothing to say.’

‘Speak to me, don’t speak to me, either way you’re going to be front page news once word gets out about you.’

‘I haven’t done anything wrong.’

Astrid snorted. ‘Like that’s gonna make a difference to the public. Once they find out about a teacher having an affair with a student they’ll be your judge, jury and executioner.’

‘She’s not my student.’

‘Don’t be naïve, Luke. The headlines alone will be enough to bury you. The story will be so twisted you won’t know where it begins or ends. You’ll be deemed a predator.’

He gave a bitter laugh. ‘But not if you write the story, right?’

Ross wanted information no other reporter had, and she wasn’t going to let him down.

‘Exactly. All I want is the truth.

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