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The words slid like knives across her heart.
He left her standing there, shattered by the callousness of his onslaught.
An hour later, after his meeting with Tom, Blake sat back in his office. He hammered his pen on his desk. One of the manufacturing plants had failed its quality-assurance test. There was still time to increase their orders from their other contract factories, but it would mean some orders arriving late. He flung his pen across his desk and paced in front of his floor-to-ceiling windows. His prowling brought no relief.
The production timeline was tight and any deviation would mean two things. One, they wouldn’t hit their global launch date and two, it gave the competition more time to discover what they had planned. And what they had planned would be the biggest thing to hit the games industry this decade.
He stared across the vista of London’s Tech City. He’d been one of the first to invest in the area as it had developed into one of Europe’s biggest technology clusters. Some of the top names in technology were his neighbours: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Intel. Hunt-F’s new game, codenamed
Everest
, would catapult his company from a mid-tier player to a global computer-game leader. Soon Hunt-F Tech’s brand would be synonymous with leading-edge technology.
Linda appeared at the door. ‘Henry’s here to see you,’ she said.
‘Send him in.’
His private investigator walked into the room, closing the door behind him.
‘Henry,’ Blake said, indicating the seat across his desk.
Henry was dressed in his usual uniform of nondescript but smart clothes. He never drew attention to himself and never looked out of place. He had an uncanny skill of fitting in anywhere. A chameleon. He was the best investigator in the city. That was why he worked exclusively for Hunt-F Tech. He was loyal, he was discreet and he was efficient.
‘What’s up?’ Henry asked. ‘I’d have called if we had a leak.’
‘I need something else,’ Blake said.
Henry sat forward. ‘Let’s hear it.’
‘I discovered yesterday I have a son. He’s nine. His name’s Daniel Walker.’ He kept his voice calm and even, but his insides twisted. Telling Henry made it suddenly seem much more real.
Henry nodded, but beyond that, didn’t react. Nothing rattled Henry.
‘He’s the result of a one-night stand I had in Brunei when my father and I worked on that internet project in early 2000.’ Two parts of the sentence seriously stretched the truth. It definitely hadn’t been a one-night stand; Sarah had been unlike any other woman. As for working, well, he’d basically spent the entire time by the pool pursuing Sarah. While his father finalised the internet deal, Blake had acted every inch the spoilt rich kid out for a good time.
‘They’re here now. In the boardroom. His mother, Sarah, tried to sneak out of the country with Daniel this morning.’ He clenched his fists under the desk then slowly released them. Every discussion about Daniel brought up unwelcome and complicated feelings. Feelings that brought up too many issues he wanted to keep buried. ‘I want a court ruling to keep him here.’
Henry pulled a notebook from his top pocket. ‘Tell me everything you know.’
‘Right.’ Where would he start? What did he really know about Sarah? About Daniel? ‘Sarah runs the Hope Orangutan Sanctuary in Brunei, and has done since her mother died. I believe it’s an hour or so from the capital, near the south-east border with Borneo.’
Henry asked a few questions. Blake told him what he knew, which wasn’t much. The facts he had about Sarah’s life, his son’s life, wouldn’t fill a post-it note.
‘If she gets him back to Brunei, things will be much trickier with regard to custody,’ Henry pointed out.
‘I figured as much. She won’t be going anywhere in the immediate future.’ Blake rubbed his fingers over his left temple. ‘Go to Brunei and find out everything you can that’d help in a custody
He left her standing there, shattered by the callousness of his onslaught.
An hour later, after his meeting with Tom, Blake sat back in his office. He hammered his pen on his desk. One of the manufacturing plants had failed its quality-assurance test. There was still time to increase their orders from their other contract factories, but it would mean some orders arriving late. He flung his pen across his desk and paced in front of his floor-to-ceiling windows. His prowling brought no relief.
The production timeline was tight and any deviation would mean two things. One, they wouldn’t hit their global launch date and two, it gave the competition more time to discover what they had planned. And what they had planned would be the biggest thing to hit the games industry this decade.
He stared across the vista of London’s Tech City. He’d been one of the first to invest in the area as it had developed into one of Europe’s biggest technology clusters. Some of the top names in technology were his neighbours: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Intel. Hunt-F’s new game, codenamed
Everest
, would catapult his company from a mid-tier player to a global computer-game leader. Soon Hunt-F Tech’s brand would be synonymous with leading-edge technology.
Linda appeared at the door. ‘Henry’s here to see you,’ she said.
‘Send him in.’
His private investigator walked into the room, closing the door behind him.
‘Henry,’ Blake said, indicating the seat across his desk.
Henry was dressed in his usual uniform of nondescript but smart clothes. He never drew attention to himself and never looked out of place. He had an uncanny skill of fitting in anywhere. A chameleon. He was the best investigator in the city. That was why he worked exclusively for Hunt-F Tech. He was loyal, he was discreet and he was efficient.
‘What’s up?’ Henry asked. ‘I’d have called if we had a leak.’
‘I need something else,’ Blake said.
Henry sat forward. ‘Let’s hear it.’
‘I discovered yesterday I have a son. He’s nine. His name’s Daniel Walker.’ He kept his voice calm and even, but his insides twisted. Telling Henry made it suddenly seem much more real.
Henry nodded, but beyond that, didn’t react. Nothing rattled Henry.
‘He’s the result of a one-night stand I had in Brunei when my father and I worked on that internet project in early 2000.’ Two parts of the sentence seriously stretched the truth. It definitely hadn’t been a one-night stand; Sarah had been unlike any other woman. As for working, well, he’d basically spent the entire time by the pool pursuing Sarah. While his father finalised the internet deal, Blake had acted every inch the spoilt rich kid out for a good time.
‘They’re here now. In the boardroom. His mother, Sarah, tried to sneak out of the country with Daniel this morning.’ He clenched his fists under the desk then slowly released them. Every discussion about Daniel brought up unwelcome and complicated feelings. Feelings that brought up too many issues he wanted to keep buried. ‘I want a court ruling to keep him here.’
Henry pulled a notebook from his top pocket. ‘Tell me everything you know.’
‘Right.’ Where would he start? What did he really know about Sarah? About Daniel? ‘Sarah runs the Hope Orangutan Sanctuary in Brunei, and has done since her mother died. I believe it’s an hour or so from the capital, near the south-east border with Borneo.’
Henry asked a few questions. Blake told him what he knew, which wasn’t much. The facts he had about Sarah’s life, his son’s life, wouldn’t fill a post-it note.
‘If she gets him back to Brunei, things will be much trickier with regard to custody,’ Henry pointed out.
‘I figured as much. She won’t be going anywhere in the immediate future.’ Blake rubbed his fingers over his left temple. ‘Go to Brunei and find out everything you can that’d help in a custody
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