Shock (Wildfire Chronicles Vol. 2) by Griffiths K.R

Author:Griffiths, K.R. [Griffiths, K.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: K.R.Griffiths
Published: 2013-07-01T00:00:00+00:00

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John had agreed of course, though even he couldn’t be sure whether the decision was based on that salary or the possibility of meeting her again.

What followed was a short period in which he acted as little more than the old man’s driver. He learned his employer’s name – Fred Sullivan – and not much else. Of course, that name did reveal how he had known the man’s daughter: Isabelle Sullivan was a notorious ‘It’ girl, famous for being rich and famous and not much else. She didn’t quite have the profile of a movie star, but a couple of years spent falling drunkenly out of nightclubs with them into the flashbulbs and the headlines meant she wasn’t far off.

Over the space of a couple of weeks, John realised that he was undergoing a sort of probation period: often he caught Fred watching him slyly as the old man talked on the phone, no doubt gauging how much his driver was listening in to the conversation.

Mostly Fred visited offices in Canary Wharf; a couple of times John was required to make the longer drive to expansive estates outside London. John never got much of an inkling of just what the old man’s business might be, but the pay was good, and Fred had been good to his promise: nothing about John’s days seemed even remotely illegal.

He moved out of his friends’ garage, got himself a small flat in Clapham. Nothing too expensive. John expected that at any moment his luck would run out, and Fred would decide that two hundred grand a year was way more than he needed to spend on a driver-cum-bodyguard.

Days progressed, and John felt his guard slipping, even starting to allow himself to believe that this might be real, that maybe he just had been that lucky: an isolated act of heroism rewarded with a genuine shot at a decent life.

The feeling remained right up until late one night, when Fred emerged from his office at a pace that belied his age, and gasped his orders to John.

“The airport. It’s starting tonight. Go, GO!”

John had known that Fred’s business was gearing up for something big. Some merger probably, just another shifting of zeroes on some balance sheet somewhere that would increase the old man’s wealth exponentially.

It was only when he reached the small, private airfield in Kent as the sun disappeared beyond the horizon that he realised he had become a part of something much bigger.

The airfield was packed with limousines and eye-wateringly expensive sports cars: John saw a couple of Ferrari’s, a Lamborghini and other exotic machines standing out among the Audi’s and the Mercedes’.

Beyond the fantasy car park, there stood a sight even more perplexing: there were as many as twenty large helicopters waiting, engines howling, rotors spinning. All around there was activity: perfectly groomed men in expensive suits and diamond-studded women, some dragging children, running from one form of transportation to the next. Along with them, John saw a hundred reflections of himself: men, some armed, some not, escorting their employers onto the choppers.

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