Vendetta by Tony Park

Author:Tony Park
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Published: 2023-06-21T06:30:32+00:00

Chapter 18

Tony started with a cold gazpacho soup. It was delicious. He savoured the cool, crisp tang and he thought about what it might be like to kiss Mia Greenaway.

‘What are you thinking?’ Lisa asked him. ‘You look like the cat that got the cream.’

He smiled. ‘Nothing. It was just great to be out in the wilds for a few hours with no one else around.’

‘Hmm . . . no one except a pretty twenty-something safari guide who probably thinks you’re the hope of the nation, and drop-dead handsome.’

‘How rude of me not to mention Mia.’

Lisa shook her head. ‘Just be careful, Tony. You’ve already bared your soul to her; I don’t want to be reading in the Daily Maverick how you’ve been sexting her selfies.’

‘I’d never do something that silly,’ he said. ‘But yes, she’s a lovely young woman and it was good spending time with her. She’s a good listener.’

‘And I’m not?’

‘You’re a good teller, Lisa, an excellent adviser. It’s why I hired you.’

She lowered her voice. ‘I thought it was the way I give head.’

He coughed, almost choking on his soup.

‘Honestly,’ Lisa picked at her prawn entree, ‘do you like her?’

‘Where’s Evan, by the way?’

Lisa pointed at him with her fork. ‘Don’t try and change the subject. I saw him when I left my suite; he was on the stoep talking on his phone. Sounded like he was on one of his marathon business calls. Do you like her?’

He put down his spoon and wiped his lips with a linen serviette. ‘You said yourself you wanted to keep it causal between you and me, and you don’t want to be the next Mevrou Ferri, not even after the election.’

‘I did, and I don’t. But it’s a woman’s prerogative to be jealous, especially of those nice legs of hers in those short shorts.’

‘She’s smart – like you.’

‘Nice save,’ Lisa said. ‘For goodness’ sake, Tony, just be bloody careful. We’ve come too far for you to throw everything away on a schoolgirl.’

‘Mia’s in her late twenties, Lisa.’

‘Whatever. Where’s your other old army boet, Adam? I met him. Now he would be worth me leaving you for. He’s gorgeous. I thought you two would have been hugging and telling war stories by now. In fact, maybe I could have invited you both back to my room tonight.’ She laughed.

Tony didn’t. He pushed his plate away and thanked the waitress who took it. When she was gone, he lowered his voice. ‘No, on all counts. Adam hates me, but I’ve been trying to get in touch with him for years.’

‘Why, if he hates you? Do you want to kiss and make up? And why exactly does he hate you?’

‘I had him and his buddy, Frank Greenaway, charged with cowardice in the face of the enemy over an incident that happened in Angola. I haven’t told Mia that, and I don’t want her to know. It’s bad enough that her father killed himself, but I think his alcoholism might have been related to that shameful day.

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