Instead she found a message from her father on her phone, demanding her presence up at the house. She heaved a sigh. It was show time! Instead of rushing off straight away, Harriet washed her face, renewed her make-up and re-coiled her hair even more tightly than usual. Armour firmly in place, she marched up to the house and found her father in the kitchen, waiting to pounce. ‘So there you are at last!’ he stormed, his face suffused with rage. ‘I suppose you’re satisfied now you’ve made a bloody fool of me, Harriet! You actually had the gall to persuade me to let that man hire my house under false pretences. All those years ago you refused to give me your lover’s name, but George Lassiter took great pleasure today in telling me the truth.’ ‘He’s James Crawford, just as he always was,’ she retorted, her response so different from the girl he’d bullied ten years before that Aubrey Wilde blinked cautiously and backed off. ‘He didn’t give you a false name, and he is the head of the Live Wires Group—also the man you would have had arrested merely for daring to like your daughter.’ ‘Like!’ He snorted.
What do You think about A Wicked Persuasion (2012)?
