The Rise of a Forsaken Lady by Emma Linfield

Author:Emma Linfield
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2019-08-02T21:00:00+00:00

Whites Gentleman’s Club, London

“We need your answer,” a hard voice said above him. Shadowed eyes looked up to meet the hard, demanding look and tense jaw.

“We?” the younger man asked a bit facetiously while looking around, “I only see you and me here.”

“Do not push your luck,” hissed the older. “This is serious business for you, or would you rather forfeit all you have worked for nearly a year to make on account for your sudden hesitation?”

A deeply-insulted frown made a crevasse in the younger man’s brow, and his hand tightened around the glass of scotch so very imperceivably. “I am not hesitating, why would you get that idea?”

“There were two other incidents that you were supposed to enact after the first one—which though you pulled off perfectly—and made our third party that much more culpable. But you…” and here a finger was jabbed into his face, “have not acted on either which makes me believe you are hesitant.”

“A follow-up so soon would have looked too suspicious,” the younger man defended. “Or do you not know the art of subtlety? Anyone with a grain of common sense would see that rapid incidents are indicative of a frame-up. Surely, you with your many years behind scrupulous acts should know that.”

“Do not lecture me, ingenue, on the matters of strategy,” he was warned strictly, “You have not earned that right yet.”

Being likened to a young innocent girl rankled, but the younger man heeded the warning. It would not profit him to alienate this man when he was on the brink of achieving all he wanted.

“Very well, it will not happen again,” his assurance was given with reluctance.

“You will need to act this month,” he was ordered, “or you will forfeit it all. Do you have a plan?”

Rooting through his memory, the younger man lit upon a conversation he and the person he was planning to be his scapegoat had only a day ago. There was a certain event coming up soon and it was the prime place and time to heap more suspicion on his scapegoat. “Not only do I have a plan, but I also have the perfect person to use it on.”

“And who might that be?”

“I would prefer to not divulge that information yet,” was the reply.

“And you are sure this will work?”

Sitting back in his chair, the younger man lifted his glass, “Without a doubt.”

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