Sins of the Father by Alexander Fyn

Author:Alexander, Fyn [Alexander, Fyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LGBT Contemporary, General Fiction
ISBN: 9781611187564
Publisher: Loose Id
Published: 2012-01-16T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

“What are you wearing?” Kael stood in the kitchen drinking a bottle of water, dressed for the Dorneywood assignment in his usual smart black clothes. Horrified, he looked his boy up and down.

From the doorway, Angel said, “Skinny jeans, my white T-shirt with Amy Lee on the front. I got it about three years ago at an Evanescence concert on the Cape.” The boy looked down at his feet. Black Gravel boots with five buckles on the sides completed his outfit. Kael could hardly complain about the boots since he’d bought them for him, and had Angel been going to a club or hanging out in Piccadilly Circus with his friends, he’d have been perfect.

“You don’t like my outfit?”

Aside from the fact that he hated skinny jeans and thought the Gravels were hideous, Kael was feeling strangely agitated, and he couldn’t quite put his finger on why. The job was routine and likely to be very boring, but there was something about Romodanovsky he just didn’t like. The man was a predator, which if Kael was honest, described him fairly accurately too. But despite being a government-sanctioned serial killer, he did have morals and a code of ethics. He suspected the Russian of having neither, so maybe that was his problem with the man.

Instead of getting angry, which was his first instinct, he decided to use the moment for education. “Would you have worn those clothes to Conran’s New Year party?”

Angel looked thoughtful for a moment. “No, Daddy.”

“School?”

“No, Daddy.”

“Why not?”

A moment of silence followed before Angel sighed. “They would be inappropriate for those occasions, Sir.”

“That’s right. Which just goes to show how much you still have to learn. Don’t get ahead of yourself.”

“Yes, Sir.” Angel looked down at his toes as his cheeks grew pink. “But Daddy”—he looked into Kael’s eyes—“a big man like you dressed in total black kinda stands out too.”

The little bugger was right. “Today I am a minder,” Kael went on. “I’m not pretending to be anything else. Most of my really covert work is done at night so black is the perfect camouflage. I understand what you’re saying, and if I had to blend in to a particular group, I’d dress like them. But you will stick out like a sore thumb in those clothes. One of the regular security will assume you’re a member of the public and throw you out.”

“Yes, Daddy. I see.”

“Dorneywood Garden is open to the public four days a year, but for the next few days the house and gardens are strictly off limits to absolutely everyone.”

“Who lives there?” Angel asked.

“It’s the country house of the home secretary at present, though the occupancy varies depending on who the PM favors at the time he enters office. Now go and change.” Kael followed him into the bedroom and while the boy stripped he went through Angel’s side of the wardrobe, taking out clothes and laying each item on the freshly made bed that would not be slept in that night. “Black school trousers.

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