Masters And Lovers 1-4

Part Two: Her Lovers' Touch

Richard

I sit in the conference room, wading through brochures, catalogues and websites, trying to find something….

…. suitable….

…. and just the tiniest bit original….

And something she doesn’t already have….

*sigh*

There’s movement in my office beyond.

Elizabeth?

She’s early….

Quickly, I whisk a plan of the City Project site over my work area, but when I look up, it’s not Elizabeth but Michael standing in the doorway.

“Hi, Richard… Hope you don’t mind. Francis let me in. Thought I’d spend half an hour on some more of that lot while I was twiddling my thumbs.” He gestures towards the stack of tattered and dusty boxes housing forty years of junk paperwork from Elizabeth’s recently deceased Uncle Albert.

“Not at all. It’s very good of you to keep at this on Elizabeth’s behalf.”

“It’s no problem at all. I’m waiting for James and Charlotte so it’s not as if I have anything better to do ‘til they turn up. And as I mentioned, I’m actually finding it quite interesting….”

Each to their own….

He picks up a box, already half-empty, so I assume he’s been working on it before, and flicks out a sheet, examines it briefly then tosses it in another box being used for waste.

I return to my own thankless task, flicking through web pages looking at more and more useless crap.

Useless expensive crap….

Not that I can't afford it, but Elizabeth already has everything.

else can I

what I see is simply bling, usually with a designer name attached, so folks with

I try a change of

theatre performance perhaps…. A

She hates Opera

Ballet perhaps?

head pops

Elizabeth’s birthday in

chuckles. “Yes, I can see that would give you a problem. Settled on

She has a wardrobe full of clothes and more in boxes in the attics plus all the bags and shoes and jewellery that might

the cars then? Accessories

garage. About the only time they

That always a

not very bookish. The odd light

don't like to talk

academically inclined

you do have a

you have any

in a mock

in front

into illegibility, into the waste box…. “But I keep finding the

“Really? Such as?”

just clues to a

you’d found he

points. “The documents are over there on that

pick up a manila file, crisp with age, flicking disinterestedly at the contents. “Did you find

the stack it came from. “There were a few, but the main one was some company called um…. VLD Entertainment….” He passes me the sheet. “Mean

of casinos and gambling dens in the area. They went out of business years ago…. Or perhaps they were bought out…. I can’t really remember. It’s got to be thirty years

reflectively I think, “Casinos eh…. If he had a gambling

“It would indeed.”

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