Never Should Have Trusted You

Chapter 123

Janet

“You look beautiful Jan, you really do.” Jason said.

“Thanks.” I smiled.

“Looking at you one won’t know you have been solely in charge of a million dollar company this past few days.”

“Not solely in charge, I had a lot of help.” I said.

We were having lunch in my favorite outdoor café. I had called Jason the previous evening and arraigned to meet him for lunch the next day.

“My dad is better than I thought,” I told him. “So let’s have lunch and catch up.”

“I will love to. I was even about to call you,” he said.

I know you were. I thought.

We had agreed on when and where to meet.

Now here we were having lunch in the near empty café, and chatting, while I waited for the time to carry out my part of the plan.

I tried to concentrate on what I had to do. I had been distracted since Lois’s phone call yesterday. Dad had told the others and we had all been worried. We had called the police, who had promised to send a patrol car past our house often u