” Dani and Mike exchanged smiles. “I’m just gonna be on the computer, goofin’ off for a while,” Dani said. “Yeah, that’s cool,” Jake ...eplied. Dani walked back down the hallway, past the kitchen and back into the bedroom. She sat down to the computer console when something strange caught her eye. It could have been the fact that she had just met her boyfriend’s handsome friend from work, or it could have been her overactive imagination, but among the titles of folders she had just seen pop up. Thanks, Neil. I'll do that right away. You've got my mobile number. Do you want Annette's?" No thanks. I'll keep in contact through Alison. What time will you be going to the airport?" We're not. A coach is bringing them back to the school and we'll meet her there at about six." OK. Give my love to Deborah and tell her not to fuss." He rang off."Explanation now, please," said Deborah peremptorily, a mixture of fear and fury in her eyes."One more quick call and we'll use the speaker phone but,". “We’ve been chatting online but met today and went clothes shopping for tonight.”“What’s tonight?” Mordred asked.“Who knows?” Elissa laughed.“So what do you do for work, Misti?” Mordred asked to break the silence.Misti sat back and crossed her legs. As she did, Mordred got a quick glimpse of her white underwear. He looked at Elissa and felt a little guilty as she raised one eyebrow at him but then followed it with a smile.“I’m an accountant for a firm in London,” Misti replied. “Sounds nice but. Simeon waited for us in a late model Saab. "Hurry. Get in," he said when he exited the car as we approached. Like a chauffeur he opened the back door of the sedan and we climbed in.After a circuitous route negotiating old roads or identifying a tail and ridding us of it or confusing Amy and I as to the location, we ended at the edge of the city at a blocky boring Bauhaus office building. Inside the steel and glass structure worked better. Windows tinted in hues of maroon, violet, burnt orange.