Next chapter up then...Many thanks to my TWO reveiwers on the last chapter...my ever faithful HOTFORTEACHER and Glouton-Mana...

I know the last chapter got a bit angsty, and this next one is as well, BUT...if no one is telling me that they don't like it then...So, am I sounding a bit sarcastically bitter here? Sorry...BUT guys..it really IS the reveiws that drive the stories on with these multi chapters - and - to a degree- lets the writer know that their efforts arn't in vain. Most of you write as well so I KNOW you know where I'm coming from on this...Right...rant time over...ENJOY ( I Hope)

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Secret and Lies

"You NEVER say that name again Sammie"

He was suddenly in her face, so close she could almost feel his eye lash's against her skin.

"Are we crystal about this?"

"About the instruction yes, the reason behind it…No. I never was"

"You don't need to be – just follow the instruction..to the letter!"

"So what now…Cal?"

"Now…now Sammie luv, we work out a way to get you gone. I know enuf people..A new name, a new life.."

"Oh of course! Well, you're good at that aren't you?"

"OI! You started it luv. You disappeared. There one day – gone the next. Did you keep the ring?. Or did that go to the nearest pawn shop? Quick funds to help your 'get away'. You know, you should have said – I could have wrangled a refund from that hotel and you could have got away a night earlier"

"I wondered when you would bring that up!"

Sammie delved into the pocket of her jeans.

"Here it is! I kept it…and now you can have it back"

The small ring travelled through the air with neither of them stopping to watch where it fell.

"And for your information….That night in the hotel…was…the best night I have ever had in my life! - Now, I don't need you help to lose myself for a few years, keep under the radar…All I need you to do is look the other way for the night"

"You really think you can get past the agents outside? And the ankle tracker - wot about that?"

"Childs play Cal"

They stared at each other for what seemed like an eternity, both trying to read the other..Both failing.

"Well I'm gonna take a shower an then I'll be in my den catching up on sum work….if you need me"

Cal took the stairs 2 at a time.

xXx

Gillian was contemplating her bed.

She had spent some time calming Emily down. A lot of her tears though had been born of guilt.

In truth there had been no 'massive argument' with Zoe, it had been a fabrication to enable her to satisfy her curiosity.

Sammie hadn't exactly held back in the short time she had spent alone with Em.

The knowledge that her dad had had sex with an underage girlfriend in his youth had really irritated his daughter initially until Sammie explained to the young girl that her dad was just trying to protect her from boys like he had been! Then Emily had kind of accepted it.

Gillian felt that she had been more than a bit embarrassed when she had been regaled with stories of what a great lover her father was, but was delighted with other stories of some of the less than legal adventures the two of them had had.

Finishing her hot chocolate she was just about to call it a day (and what a day!) when Emily came crashing into the room.

"Gill – you have to stop this, you have to, now"

"Whoa Em. Slowly, calm down. What is it? What do I have to stop sweetie?"

Gill recognised real fear in the girls face.

"Dad! – He's had a massive argument with Sammie – I didn't understand what some of it was about but… He's going to let her escape Gill, he's just gonna let her, and then he'll get in trouble …and…and we'll never find out what happened or…"

"Emily stop. How do you know all this? Did Samantha ring you and tell you because you know she could just be playing another game…"

"NO Gillian! – I saw it! I… I watched it all…it's just happened"

"I don't understand sweetie. – You say you watched it? Did you have a bad dream you mean or….. "

"Cameras Gill…. He set them up in the house – ages ago, just like the ones he has in the office, I think he used them to spy on me when he had to stay late at work…He just didn't know that I knew, or that I worked out how to pick up the feed on my laptop"

She had the good grace to look down at her feet.

"Emily you are going to delete that from your system and then I will personally take the cameras down in your house and…did you say he had some set up at the office?"

"Gill she's going to get away"

"Right, yes of course…I'll ring Ben"