SAVANT - Rising SAVANT - Risen: Books 1 and 2 of the Alien Invasion by Hatchett

Author:Hatchett [Hatchett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-07T06:00:00+00:00

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Situated deep in the countryside between a small village called Aldbourne and the market town of Marlborough in Wiltshire, just a few kilometres from the M4 motorway with links to Bristol and Wales to the West and London to the East sat The Manor. It was a large mansion surrounded by fifty acres of land and a number of outbuildings spread across the estate. It had its own mile long track to the nearest road and was a quiet and peaceful retreat. It was owned by Harry and Harriet Wainwright – the two Harrys’ – founders and owners of the Wainwright Group, a global company with a variety of different divisions and diversified interests.

Both Harrys’ were in their sixties and made a handsome couple. Harry was around five feet nine with greying hair and medium build. However, it was his commanding presence which everyone noticed and when he spoke you found yourself listening.

Harriet was shorter at around five feet three, slim with straight, hazel tinted hair down to her shoulders. She had a few laughter lines around her face, but it was still a pretty face which hinted at a lively sense of humour.

They were sitting at a large oak dining table, drinking coffee and looking through floor to ceiling concertina windows at an expanse of green fields stretching to the far horizon, lost in their own thoughts. The TV was on in the background, regurgitating the latest news stories and Hilda, their housekeeper, was busy fussing around in the large oak kitchen with an island in the centre.

Hilda was a slight woman of sixty-eight, with her grey hair tied up in a bun and she ran the house for the Harrys’.

Her husband, George, who was sixty-seven and a bear of a man with large bald head was the groundman for the estate and he looked after all the external areas from the gardens to the outbuildings. They had both worked for the Wainwrights for decades and were treated more like family.

“You look pensive,” Harriet noted, looking at her husband with mild concern. “Penny for your thoughts.”

Harry turned to look at his wife and smiled weakly. She always seemed to know what he was thinking or feeling, and he thanked his lucky stars every day that he had met her those long years ago. She was his soul mate and he couldn’t even bear to think about what he would do without her.

“I think we’ve made a bad decision,” Harry said quietly.

“Jess?”

“Who else? We should never have let her out of our sight…and our protection.”

“Well, that’s easily rectified,” Harriet replied. “We just invite them all over to stay.”

Harry considered it for a few moments.

“You’re right, as usual.”

“Leave it to me,” Harriet said, rising from the table. “I’ll make a couple of calls and send the helicopter to pick them up.”

Harry took another sip of his coffee before rising and heading to the attached barn. It was a solid structure with breezeblock walls, a corrugated metal roof and was large enough to hold a tennis court.

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