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Clicking off the call, he thuh to the next issue he had to deal with

‘Trouble?’

Dare glanced towards his office door to find his mother framed in it She’d flown fro overnight at his before she headed to Southampton to visit an old friend

Dare s up this early, Ma? You should still be asleep’

His mother strolled into his office and perched on one of his sofas in the sitting area ‘I needed to talk to you before I head off today’

Dare glanced at his watch Business always came first in Dare’s world, except when it came to his mother ‘Of course, what’s up?’

If she wanted to borrow Mark, his driver, to take her to Southaed it

‘I received an eo’

Dare frowned, not sure he’d heard her right ‘Your father?’

‘I know’ Her brow quirked ‘It was a surprise to me too’

Dare wasn’t sure what shocked him more, the fact that she’d received an e to tell him about it ‘What does he want?’

‘To see me’

Her hands twisted together unconsciously in her lap and Dare’s gut tightened When asomeone he didn’t approve of contacted her thirty-three years later you could bet soood

‘Bully for him,’ he said without preamble

‘He invited me up to the house for lunch’