Testing The Limits by Harper Cole

Author:Harper Cole [Cole, Harper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-11-05T05:00:00+00:00

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I waited until we'd started on the main course. We'd had our usual tussle about who ordered the wine (me, and it would always be me) and then settled to enjoy the food.

"I have some news," I told her. "Something of a curate's egg."

She glanced at my plate and then hers. "Eggs? Wait, what?"

"Good in parts."

She cocked her head. "I have literally no idea what you're talking about."

"The curate's egg? Punch? Du Maurier? Well. Okay. I simply mean I have some bad news, but some good news as well."

She glared at me for a moment longer, and then resumed eating. "Right. Go on, then. Bad first?"

"I lost my job."

Her fork clattered to the plate. She insisted on eating American-style, cutting up her food and swapping her cutlery all over the place. She picked the fork up again, and waved it in the air. "When? When did you lose your job? And how? What did you do?"

"I didn't do anything. Somehow my father got to me. Through Craig, my assistant, is my guess. I'd chosen that company because it was relatively new and didn't have quite the same ties as many of the older businesses. My father's influence is broad. Broad enough to reach me there, it seems."

She frowned. "What does he want?"

"You know what he wants. He knows he can't control me so now it's personal. He wants to destroy me. But there is good news; I have a new job. It's a short term contract, but it's in finance, working for a Chinese investment bank."

"Right."

She still looked worried. I reached over and placed my hand over hers, stopping her waving that fork around. "It will be all right. He really isn't a powerful as he likes to think he is."

"But you just said-"

"I know. I mean, he can't chase me forever."

She pulled her hand free, and shot me a dark look, as if she didn't believe me, and a cold feeling tickled the back of my neck. I needed her to trust me, or none of this would work.

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