The Bruise_Black Sky by John Wiltshire

Author:John Wiltshire [Wiltshire, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

They were leaving Paradise. They had all the footage they wanted of Oliver’s final visit home before his death. Peter Cameron now wanted to film Oliver’s first break into acting as a teen in a popular Kiwi soap, but none of this involved Ben. They had a local actor selected to play seventeen-year-old Oliver Whitestone and the whole company was moving to Wellington for a week before flying to the States.

Ben, therefore, had some downtime. Peter suggested that he keep Bronislav with him. He agreed with Peter that the bodyguard being with him constantly was a very good idea.

It was even better when the bodyguard reminded him that he owned property in New Zealand.

The only trouble was deciding which one to go to.

Nik owned a vineyard in Central Otago, apparently. But as he explained patiently to Ben, he couldn’t just kick the family out, as they not only ran the business for him, but had done so for his grandfather before him. Ben suspected this generosity was more because Nik liked drinking wine, but was more than happy to let someone else grow it for him.

He admitted he had a large station near Queenstown, which, again, had long-standing tenants doing something with milk shares and yield that was incredibly profitable and enabled him to buy nice watches when he wanted them.

He then recalled slyly that he also possessed a number of houses scattered around the country from Auckland to Steward Island, some occupied fulltime, some as holiday rentals—cribs, as they were known.

One phone call to his Auckland agent and they were given very good news. His place in Wanaka was empty. Exceptionally good luck for them in the middle of the skiing season when it was usually booked well over four years ahead…The current occupier had suffered a heart-attack his first day of skiing and was in hospital in Dunedin before being transported home to Auckland. His wife was with him, of course.

Ben had to chuckle when he saw the crib. He’d imagined a kind of shack up in the hills. He should have known.

It was built along the lines of their house, in that it was mostly made of glass. It had panoramic views one-eighty degrees across the lake and the mountains and the tiny, exclusive township of Wanaka a couple of miles away. Nikolas had never seen it before, either, and he was just as interested to look around, until he apparently decided he preferred discovering Ben.

He told Ben to strip.

This was unusual. It was possibly the first time Nik had ever said this so blatantly. He sat in a chair in the brilliant New Zealand sunlight, no ozone layer dimming its intense clarity even in the winter, and told Ben to strip—that he wanted to watch. Ben got the distinct impression then that he hadn’t been the only one to realise they had many admirers, and that their ownership of each other was very, very lucky indeed and needed to be celebrated and reinforced at every opportunity.

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