Chapter 59: The Sin Of The Parent, Part 14, Georgie

CHARLOTTE

My Master's phone rings. He pulls it from a pocket glancing at the screen and raises brows, looking surprised.

"Yes, James Alexanders? Oh, hello Fiona, what can I do for you?"

He listens for a moment, then frowns. "I thought I'd paid all those.... What's the reference?" Flipping open his laptop, he taps at the keyboard then peers at the screen. "Ummm.... No, I don't seem to have that one. What was it for? Oh, right, yes, no problem. Can you e-mail it across. That's right, yes. No, I'll pay it now while you're on."

He snaps fingers at me, pointing over at his jacket... "Charlotte, my wallet."

Pulling out the wallet, I open it to take out his card, holding it up for a second for him to see.

"Yes, that one."

Passing the card to him, I leave him reeling off a number into his phone.

But what has caught my eye, is a photo, creased and clearly old, tucked into a plastic window.

The face in the photo is of a woman, perhaps in her mid-twenties. Dark-eyed and with a