By that evening Cal had calmed down sufficiently to cook dinner for he and Emily without the fear of tossing the frying pan across the kitchen. What a bloody day. Torres's scolding had been the cherry on the top of the cake.
Emily sat in the kitchen on her laptop. Cal looked in every now and then to see her typing intently, paying no attention to anything around her.
"What's that you're typing, love?"
"Chapter One." He grinned, walking over to her.
"You're nine chapters slow." This shook her from her reverie. She looked up at him, big brown eyes wide.
"You're on Chapter 10?" He nodded casually and she smiled at him, shaking her head. He frowned.
"What was that?"
"Nothing, I'm just…surprised. Dad you've nearly finished another book. That's great, right? It'll inject some capital back into the company…" Cal stopped dead in the kitchen archway. He turned to her.
"Where'd you learn a big phrase like that?"
"Business Studies."
"Pull the other one love; I know that's not true." He checked on their food before making his way back into the kitchen and sitting down next to his daughter. She tried to ignore him.
"Come on. Spill. Where'd you hear it?" Emily sighed and closed over her laptop.
"I overheard Gill say it one day in the office on the phone. I stopped in to say 'hi' and I didn't knock, just walked straight in…" Cal watched her face, eyes darting side to side, trying to remember correctly. She wasn't lying but right now he was more interested in what Gillian had been saying and to whom.
"What else she say love?" Emily hesitated before seeing the seriousness in his eyes.
"She said something about an 'injection of capital', then that she'd be in contact as soon as she could and not to worry, everything would work out fine. I think that's all. Why?" Cal's face softened again. He felt his anger sweeping back through him. He put his mask on for Em though.
"Nothing love. Come on, let's get dinner eh?"
Short chapter there and a plot twist that's come out of the blue but that's what happens when you don't plan a story first!