Hello My Angel - Sue Brown Page 0,32

pompous ass. We’ll start with the members’ area and work downwards. The Royal Festival Hall is furthest away. We’ll start from there.”

“What do we do when we find them?” Rick asked.

Josh didn’t get a chance to reply as Dave slammed on the brakes, cursing at the top of his voice, causing Josh and Rick to lurch forward and slam back again.

“Sorry,” Dave said when they moved again. “Fucking stupid driver.” He stuck his finger up at the car in front.

Josh’s heart hammered with the sudden adrenaline. “It’s not an ambush?”

“Just an idiot. Do you want me to take alternative routes?” Dave sounded calm enough, but Josh wasn’t taking any chances.

“A short one. If you see a tail, Delta E. We can’t escalate.”

He clenched his fists, fretting at any delay in getting to Cal, but they couldn’t take the chance that Moles was messing with them again.

After five minutes, Dave said, “We’re clear.”

Thank Farrah for that. They didn’t have the agency’s clearance to dispose of people following them. Josh remembered Jesse’s description of the ‘Deltas’ for disposing of unwanted tails; between dead and ditch.

Five minutes more and they pushed through the doors of the Royal Festival Hall, Josh ignoring the scowls of two hipsters he nearly flattened in his haste to get into the building.

“What’s the plan?” Rick asked once they were in.

Josh pointed to the other side of the building. “You and Dave take the blue side. I’ll take the green side. Go up to floor six. I’ll meet you in the middle.”

“If we see them what then?”

“Stay out of sight if you can.”

“I really hope he’s here and not the Shard,” Dave said morosely.

His one weakness was a fear of heights.

“Me too,” Josh agreed. “Me too.”

He didn’t give a crap about heights, but Cal did. Just the thought of Cal without protection so high up made him go cold.

Dave and Rick did a quick rock, paper, scissors. Rick lost and headed for the stairs. Dave sent Josh a smirk and pressed the button for the lift. Josh grinned and turned back to his own lift. He stabbed the button, keeping an eye on the people walking through the lobby as he waited and fumed at Cal’s disappearance.

Where the hell was Cal? Why had he left without telling Josh where he was going? He knew why Cal had left. Did he really think they wouldn’t discover he’d gone? It was a good thing Cal didn’t want kids because his balls were toast. His phone screen lit up. Rick.

He’s here.

Josh let out a long breath and a small knot of tension eased in his gut. Yeah, he would have run all over London to find Cal but finding him in the first place made it so much fucking quicker to start the yelling. He typed a response.

He seen you?

No.

Stay back.

K.

Josh looked at himself in the mirror, hating the scared expression in his eyes. His expression hardened and he straightened his shoulders. He smoothed back his hair, slicking it with the raindrops still caught in the strands.

The lift doors opened. Josh took one last look in the mirror and blew a kiss to himself.

“Oh Charlie, you’re so going to regret this.”

Chapter 9

Josh smiled at the woman sitting behind the reception desk, saying, “I’m here to visit Edwin Mullins.”

The woman frowned. “Members are allowed one guest only.”

“I’m not staying,” Josh assured her. “He has something of mine I need to retrieve.”

She studied him a moment, a small frown between her eyes, obviously wanting to call him on his bullshit. But finally she said, “Okay then.”

Josh beamed at her and turned to find Cal. The member’s lounge ran along the side of the building with a perfect view of the Thames. Josh shuddered, refusing to look out of the window, and in doing so found who he was looking for. Cal and Mullins sat on one of the sofas about halfway down. They faced the windows and hadn’t spotted him. Josh prayed to the goddess, Farrah, and channeled the Josh he’d been when he first arrived in London. Cal was going to pay for sneaking off without him. He walked toward them, with a sway of his hips, a smile on his face that meant he was ready for war. Dave and Rick had taken a seat at the other end of the bar. Josh gave them a quick nod then focused his attention on his quarry. Mullins had his back to him but Cal looked up, his eyes narrowing as he spotted his