chapter 12

CHAPTER 12

 

THE MEETING

 

It was the following day and Cresandra had turned up at the Thompson household, she walked you the path knocked the door and Clinton answered.

 

“Hello Miss Drake, please come in”

“Thank you” Mr Radford

 

Clinton then led Cresandra to the Kitchen and offered her a cup of tea, as Clinton did so his Grandmother Georgia came barging into the kitchen

 

“SEE YOU MISS DRAKE TELL THE TRUTH TELL US WHO YOU REALLY ARE, THERE IS NO SUCH MAGAZINE AS HIT FOR SIX, SO WHAT ARE YOU UP TO” She shouted as she started to point her finger at Cresandra who had a look of shock on her face at her actions.

 

“Nan calm down please give our guest time to sit down and then we can ask her who she really is we need to take it easy Nan get a cup of tea and we can sit down” Clinton replied as he passed a cup of tea to Cresandra

 

With that Georgia sat down opposite Cresandra, with an angry frown on her face and looking at Cresandra with the look of the devil.

 

“Right then Miss Drake, if that is your real name, why are you here, who are you and who the hell do you work for and I want the truth” Clinton asked

“She is a Whore that is what she is Clinton, I have met her type before, sleep with anyone and everyone and then sell her story for money, trash that is what they are, trash” Georgia replied with a growl

“Ok Nan let the lady speak please” Clinton replied

“You want the truth, well my name is Cresandra Drake and no I am not here to sleep with your Grandson, I am here to ask for your help” replied Cresandra

“Our help with what may I ask” asked Georgia

“I think you know full well why I am here, I need help to bring The Syndicate down, you know who they are don’t you Mrs Thompson” Cresandra replied

“Nan what does she mean The Syndicate” asked Clinton

“Go on tell him, Mrs Thompson tell him how his father James to money to fix cricket matches” replied Cressandra

“He only fixed the one and yes I know who The Syndicate and who runs them and what do you want to know about them, don’t think you are going to get the book” replied Georgia

“I don’t want the bloody book, I just want to bring them down each and everyone of even The Boss, you know the father of my son Daniel, The man who controls the money, the head honcho and we both know his name, don’t we Mrs Thompson” Cresandra replied looking Georgia straight in the eye “ we know who he is don’t we I said”

“YES WE DO OK” Georgia Shouted back at Cresandra

“Right you two I am a bit lost, so could someone please tell me who the hell The Boss is and what the hell The Syndicate is and you start” Clinton replied looking straight at Cresandra

“Well the Syndicate is a group of around, ten men with quite a lot of money”

“Quite a lot huh, tell him how much go on tell him” Georgia interrupted

“Well Clinton the have a combined wealth on around two and fifty Million pounds, there ok I have told him can I finish now” Cresandra replied looking at Georgia, who swung her hand as if to say feel free

 

 

“The Boss is the money man so to say he has the most money around, one hundred and ten million pounds at last count, the group work from Asia mainly, with the Boss working out of the UK, they get sports stars from all over the world in the fold and pay them money to fix cricket, football, beach volleyball and other sports events for them , then they bet loads if not mega money on the games all over Asia with the illegal bookmakers” Cresandra replied

“Yes so where do you come in then, what is your part in this Syndicate them Miss Drake” Asked Clinton

“TOLD YOU CLINTON, SHE IS A WHORE” Georgia Shouted and pointing at Cresandra

“Shush Nan let the lady speak” Clinton asked

“Huh a lady, more like a tramp if you ask me” replied Georgia

“Nan I won’t tell you again shush” Clinton said looking at his Nan and putting his finger to his lips

“Well I am the one who, singles out the targets and then sleep with them, blackmail them into going into the fold and fixing sports events, that is what I was suppose to do with you today, but my consciences got the better of me and I want my son back and the only way I can do that is to bring down The Boss and The Syndicate even if it means I do time for a bit” Cresandra replied

“Throw away the key if you ask me” Georgia replied

“Will you please shut up Nan, hang on one minute did you say that my father fixed a game and you know about it Nan” Clinton said and then turned to his Na, looking her straight in the eye.

“Yes he did Clinton, how do you think you got the money for the deposit for the house with Isabella, it was the money your father got for his part in fixing a games all those years ago, but you know what he could not bring himself to do it, he could not betray the game he loved and never did throw the game” Georgia replied to Clinton.

“So what you are saying is dad took the money and ran, he double crossed The Syndicate, wonders will cease, so where do you come in with my father did you sleep with him Miss Drake” replied Clinton looking back at Cresandra

“No I never he, only had eyes for your mother, but he did get talked into it by Curtis” Cresandra replied

“Curtis James-Rowe, this Curtis would be yes” Clinton Asked

 

Both Cresandra and Georgia both looked at Clinton and nodded their heads.

“The Bastard, What has he got to do with all this? He is part of The Syndicate yes?” Clinton asked with some anger in his voice and a look of the devil in his eyes.

“I want to bring that man down don’t you worry, so yes if you want my help you have got it” Clinton replied

“Clinton don’t be hasty, how do know that it is not a trick and we are not being set up, for her to get her hands on the book?” Georgia replied looking straight at Cresandra and pointing

“Listen would I be here if I was going to do that, I want The Boss, he wants Curtis and you have the book and between us we can bring them down and when we do it will expose The Boss for who he really is a bully, look we both know who he is and what he is capable of, what do you think that was the other day in the lane, yes it was The Boss’s work” Cresandra replied

“How do you know about that, Miss Drake” Clinton Asked

“Because she set it up you dope” Georgia replied as she clipped Clinton on the back of the head as she did so

“Yes I did but It was only supposed to be a warning with no violence, but he went against what I said and went with the orders off Curtis” replied Cresandra

“So what are the three of us going to do to bring down The Syndicate, it will be dangerous and someone may get hurt, but I believe between us we can do it so are you two with me or not?” asked Cresandra

“Look we both need time to think about this and if we do, do it we will need a solid plan and that none of us get hurt or neither of us will do it” Clinton Replied

 Cresandra looked over to Clinton and replied “I can’t guarantee no one get hurt all I can guarantee is that we will bring the Syndicate down and that no other innocent people will die or get hurt by my hands again, The Boss has my son and that is all I want, is my dear darling Daniel back and for me to have my life back, for him to be proud of me just once in his life, it was a mistake me sleeping with the boss but he is a control freak and that is what he is doing with me now, controlling me to get the people he wants and using Daniel to blackmail me so as you can see I have too much to lose for this not to work I am putting my life and that of my dear son at risk, if they find out I have double crossed them they will kill me, that is how nasty and unpredictable these people are or should that be, how unpredictable the one person is and that person being The Boss”

 

Clinton looked at his Nan and said to her “Are you in”

Georgia replied “You are damn right I am in, I have been waiting for this day for many years, Cresandra if I may call you that, you say you have been the been responsible for innocent people dying, may ask who”

“Well I was having a relationship with and fell in love with a Russian Beach Volleyball Player by the name of Anastasia Malinka, she was a beautiful young and brilliant woman, but I made the mistake of trying to get her involved with fixing volleyball matches and she refused, but this is the thing I am most ashamed of, one night we were making love in a hotel room in New York as you know being gay is frowned up on especially in Russia and The Boss persuaded me to invite one of his Hench men to come and hide in the Wardrobe and film everything, you see he had such a hold over me I could not say no, this was before I had Daniel and Anastasia was really the love of my life something I never expected, but the boss knew if he had Anastasia and myself on film having sex he had some leverage and if she did not play ball so to speak he could blackmail her with it, but and this is the big but, the laptop that this dope had stored it on got stolen from his car and the film ended up on the internet and Anastasia and my sex romp was all over the world, she had just sign a multi-million dollar contract with a big company and they pulled the plug, what was they said not the type of things they wanted the face of their advertising campaign to be doing have a lesbian relationship, the following day she was found in a hotel room hanging from the door way, she had taken her own life and I am to blame if only I could say no to that control freak The Boss and she would still be here” Cresandra replied sobbing uncontrollably in to her had tears streaming down her face this was a woman she truly loved and had blamed herself every day since the fateful day that Anastasia’s body was found and she vowed then that one day she would bring The Boss and the syndicate down and bring them down was what she was going to do now

“So, I she you were a dyke then, like the women and not men so why are you still doing what you are doing if you prefer women” Georgia asked the a wide eyed look at Cresandra

“I am Bi-sexual I like both sexes but Anastasia was different I had a fluttering my heart the day I met her and she did too, she was 6ft 3in, blonde, blue eyes and had a body anyone would die for, we instantly fell for each other and to my horror I allowed this to cloud my judgment just to get what The Boss wanted, something I will never, ever do again all I want to do now is bring this man down and get my life back and spend it with my son” Does that answer your question Mrs Thompson, or as we are on first name terms may I call you Georgia

“Thank you and Mrs Thompson will do for now you have not gain my respect yet and I am sure you never will” replied Georgia

“That’s enough you two, we will have less of that, Cresandra what do you suppose we do to get at the syndicate, do you have a plan or what” asked Clinton

“Or what if you ask me my boy, she is a fraud” replied Georgia

“Shut up nan?” Clinton asked his Nan

“Who the hell do you think you are speaking to my boy, have some respect for you elders?” Georgia replied with some anger aimed at Clinton

 

“I am talking to you nan, Cressandra would not have come here and told us all this if she was a fraud, I think she is totally serious about this and if she need my help I will give it to her, even if you don’t want too, I do believe it is you that has got the book isn’t it” Replied Clinton looking in to his nan’s eyes

 

All Georgia could do was stare straight back at Clinton and nod her head to say yes, to what he had just asked her

 

“Well then shut up and let’s hear what Cresandra has got to say and take it from there, because I want too” Clinton replied looking in to his Nan’s eyes

He then turned around looked at Cresandra and asked her “So what is your master plan then do you have one”

Cresandra looked him in the eyes and replied” Yes I do have one and it involves you but if you don’t want to that is fine, but I could be to your future benefit and that of you children”

“ok go on I am listening, what is it you want me to do and how” Clinton replied looking straight at Cresandra with some fright on his face and in his eyes

“right, when we spoke the other day, you mentioned to me you would take money for giving weather conditions, pitch conditions and the team” replied Cresandra

“You what Clinton, you dull boy” Georgia said to him

Clinton looked at her put his finger to his mouth and whispered “shush”

He turned to Cresandra and replied “yes I did and what about it, no don’t tell me a taster to see if I would take a bribe to fix matches, how stupid of me, so come on what is you plan”

“Well I will go back and tell The Boss today that you are willing to take some sort of payoff for giving us team information for the upcoming one day international, that is all he wants is team info and that is all we will start with, once the game is out of the way we will then take it to the next step and I will tell him you will take a payoff to say, what bowl a couple of wide’s say, with the England captain on side it won’t be a problem to get you on to bowl, but don’t bowl any or as your running in pull up injured that way they will not think you have double crossed them” Cresandra replied

“Sounds a bit sus if you ask me Clinton she is stringing you along my boy” Georgia replied

“Look you two, I am serious about this I want to take them down and going to the police with this is not a option at the moment as some of them are in the Syndicate, well the chief inspector is I believe” replied Cres[sandra

“So is the Chief Constable as well” Said Georgia

Both Clinton and Cres[sandra looked at her with shock on their faces and Clinton asked “How the hell do you know that, ah don’t tell me, that damn book you have”

“Well If he is to, we will definitely need to tread carefully, but I believe the plan will work if you are on board Clinton and If your nan comes on board as well so I can prove I am not bluffing, we could bring all this to a thumping end” Cresandra replied looking at Clinton

“I don’t know about this, it is very dangerous and could get messy for the rest of the family, I don’t want mum, Granddad or Isabella involved” Clinton replied

“Look I can’t guarantee that, but I can warn you if something is going to happen to them, that is the best I can do”

“Look Clinton, if you want to do this I will be with you all the way, I still don’t trust her, but she can earn that trust should she be true to her word on what she has just said” Georgia replied as she got up out of her chair and laid a hand on Clinton’s shoulder

Clinton turned looked up to her taped her on the hand looked back to Cresandra “Ok if you think it will work we will do it, if you double cross us I will go not to the police but to the papers with this”

Cresandra looked at Clinton smiled and said “Thank you and I won’t let you down and now for step one of the plan are you ready”

 

 

Both Clinton and Georgia looked at Cresandra and nodded, Cresandra looked back, smiled and took her mobile phone from her bag and started to ring a number

 

“Hello”

“Yes boss it’s me Cressndra and I have some good news for you, you know that lad you wanted me to get on board, yes you know the one, that’s right Clinton Radford, well just left him and he will do it for” Cresandra looked at Clinton putting the phone on her shoulder against her ear and holding up both hands and mouthing ten at Clinton and Georgia both nodded and watched in anticipation

“Yeah he will do it for Ten Thousand pound for the series, in Ten pound notes and ASAP”

“Right so I can phone him and tell him I can get the money to him tomorrow, ok bye” Cresandra put the phone down, looked at Clinton and Georgia and said “Plan in process”

“So what now?” asked Clinton?

“I will go and get the money store it at my place and we meet up in public, because if I know them now they think they have got you in their clutches they will have me followed to the meeting, as soon as you have the money walk away and bring it back her give it to your nan” replied Cresandra

“What am I going to do with Ten Grand in ten pound notes?” asked Georgia

“I don’t know and I don’t care we need to make them think Clinton is on board” replied Cresandra

“I know I will take it to my safe deposit box and leave it there” Georgia replied looking at Clinton

Clinton looked at his Nan a bit puzzled and said “A safe deposit box”

“I will explain later Clinton”

Cresandra looked at them both and said “Thank you for helping me, all I want is my son back and once I have got him, you can do whatever you want with the book and what other information you have on the syndicate and the boss, it won’t worry me as long as I get my dear son back, but remember these are nasty and dangerous people, remember they have already tried to scare your nan, so be safe”

 

Cresandra then turned around and slowly left the room walked to the front door opened it and left the Thompson house to go home

 

All Cresandra could think about on her way back home was, am I doing the right thing, yes I am because at the end of all this I am going to get my darling dear son Daniel back and make up forall this lost time I have missed out on his life. Cresandra’s thoughts now slipped slowly to the things she could do with Daniel, go to the beach and make sand castles, go on nice sunny holidays abroad, take him to school, read him bed time stories and the one thing that only his real mother could give him was a great big cuddle in the morning and at night before bed, these were the thoughts of a tormented mother who had been forced from her son’s life to help other people make ill gained profits from making people do illegal things in sport and it was now time for it all to stop and for her to start to put him first and she had now taken the first step towards doing this the next step was to carry on and go through with the whole plan, yes she knew it would be dangerous and that the lives of her and her son could be put at risk but it was a risk worth taking if it meant that she would get her son back and that was all that mattered now and if she was going to die in the process then that is what she had to do.

 

Daniel was her main concern now and nothing else mattered not even sleeping with people to get illicit gains and to blackmail people, but she was to do this just one more time, with someone that Herself, Clinton and Georgia all knew.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clinton and his Gran Georgia, sat at the kitchen table trying to digest what had just happened a few minutes earlier when Clinton looked to his nan and said “So nan what do you really think can we trust her or I she lying and just wants to get me in to match fixing just like dad, come to think of it you owe me an explanation about that”

“yes I think we can trust her, don’t think she would have gone to all this trouble and phoned The Boss if she was not for real as I know this guy he is a nasty piece of work, in the past he threatened to throw the baby of a cricketer to the wolves and film it being ripped apart just to get him to fix matches, so this guy is for real and is nasty” Georgia replied looking at Clinton

“Yes, but I asked you about my dad as well, you know James Radford, why did he get involved in match fixing” Clinton asked angrily looking into his nans eyes

“Well you know what I just told you about a cricketer who would not be swayed and get into match fixing, well that cricketer was your dad, James Radford and the baby well that was you, so you see your father really did not have a choice as he did not want to put you or your mother at risk, even though you had not been born, he did not want to take that risk, but it ultimately cost him his life anyway, he was a brave man your father and let me tell you this my boy, you and your mother meant the world to him and when someone not only threatens to take your partner, but also take their unborn baby out and feed it to the wolves you sit up and listen because that is what The Boss threatened to do and I have no doubt he would have done it as well” Georgia answered

“Yeah right take an unborn baby from their mother; pull the other one, what would have happened to mum” Clinton Replied to his Nan

“If you want me to go into all the gory details I will” replied Georgia looking straight into Clintons eyes to see if there was any sign of him not wanting her to explain

“Please do, I would love to hear this” Clinton replied

“Well on your head be it, I believe the boss’s plan was to kidnap your mother on her way home from work, sedate her and cut her stomach open, thus revealing you, you would have been handed to the guard at the door and feed to the wolves in the pen and ultimately ripped from limb to limb” Georgia told Clinton and she could see the look of shock on his face in disbelief of what he had just been told

“Right, so next thing you will be telling me that mum would have been left to die” Clinton replied

“Yes that is if she was not already dead, The plan the Boss had was to chop her in to pieces and then mix the parts up with the food for the pigs and the would eat it, you see pigs will eat anything and not leave a trace, so you can see what sort of danger we are mixing up with, you need to make sure that Isabella is always with someone, either your mother or her mother, never her father we don’t want him involved” Georgia replied

 

Clinton looked at her and walked over to the sink and was sick as a dog after being told what he had just been told by his Nan, the thought of someone doing such a thing mortified him and he was going to make sure no one ever hurt Isabella or the twins

 

“Right Nan that has made my mind up I want to go through this, but I will not put Isabella through it she is my main priority now along with the twins, I could send her to Ireland to stay with Russ and his mother on the farm” Clinton replied as he turned

 

But his Nan was no longer there in the kitchen she had disappeared, Clinton could hear some footsteps coming down from the stairs and his Nan reappeared in the kitchen she looked at Clinton and said “Clinton I need you to promise me something”

Clinton looked straight at her as if he had seen a ghost and replied “Yes, but what about me sending Isabella to stay with Russ in Ireland”

“No don’t do that we need to keep everything normal and not let on or we will make mistakes and then we will be in real danger, no police as Cresandra and I both said they are in on it to” Georgia replied to Clinton

“OK Nan, so what is this promise you want from me” replied Clinton

 

Georgia walked around the dining room table, holding an A5 white envelope and proceeded to hand it to Clinton and said to him “This is a power of attorney and it is signed by myself and my solicitor, it gives you all power of my estate and there is also a letter in their explaining what to do with it should I ever die or get killed, you see Clinton these  people are going to carry on coming after me until they get what they want and that is one reason that I want you to make sure Isabella and your mother stay safe because if they can’t get me they will go after them”

“What are you on about nan” Clinton replied with a confused look on his face at what is Nan had just told him and wanted an answer why

“Look I have a book that they want and they will not give up until they get it, this envelope gives you all you need to know and what to do with the information that is stored in a safe deposit box, which is where I will put the money tomorrow, all I ask is that you reveal The Boss in front of Isabella and her Mother you will understand why when you read the letter and the book, I also want you to make sure that the syndicate never hurt anyone again, I have no doubt that in the next few weeks once you have made your international debut they will be putting more pressure on you to fix games and will probably use me to do it, if not me either your mother or Isabella that is why I have said to keep them safe and not alone, but this letter will give you some leverage if they get heavy with you” Georgia replied

“Nan why are you putting yourself in that position, why are you putting your life at risk” Clinton replied

“Well Clinton I think I need to tell you this, your father did not die from a brain tumour, he was poisoned and died a slow agonising death over a few day, the tumour was a cover story your father knew he had taken off more than he could chew when he double crossed the syndicate, he went to the police but all they did was lead the syndicate straight to him, you see I had a friend who was a doctor who worked as a neurologist, who used an old case for the x-rays and the notes to give us the story of a tumour, it was not easy but we did it somehow, it nearly cost my friend his job but he is still there today and I was very thankful for his help” Georgia replied to Clinton looking at him with tears running down her cheek

“So basically Nan what you are saying is you lied about what happened to my father to Granddad, Me and Mum for what to cover up he took a bribe to cheat” Clinton replied angrily

“Yes that is what I am telling you, but it was for the best, look at it this way, how do you think your mother would have felt pregnant with you and finds out her boyfriend is a cheat and hooked up with a criminal gang and it could have finished you granddad of with his heart the way it was so I had no choice and he asked for my help, that is why we need to do this if only for your father Clinton and in the envelope is the name of the boss and the rest of them” Georgia replied

“Nan I don’t care anymore you have lied to me, but can I ever forgive you well I don’t know but we can work on it, first we need to make sure that tomorrow goes to plan and nothing untoward happens and we get the money and this envelope put it back, put it in the study in the draw on the desk and if I ever need it I know where it is and I will do what has to be done then and not before, I look up to you nan and now I find out you have lied to me, is there anything else I need to know or do I know everything” said Clinton

“Clinton I have nothing more to say and I will put the envelope in the draw as you ask and when and if anything happens to me then the letter will explain what to do, we must keep what we are doing to ourselves” Georgia replied

“Damn right we do, what do you think Granddad and mum will think if they knew you had lied to them all these years about my father’s death,  I don’t think they would be to happy do you” Clinton replied

“Point taken” replied Georgia

 

 

It was the day for Clinton and Cresandra to meet up and start their plan and they had both arranged to meet on the promenade to do the deal.

 

Clinton was a bit apprehensive about what he was about to do and how much danger that he was going to put his Gran, Mother and Isabella in, it was going to be a dangerous for him but he knew it was something he had to do, if only to get revenge for what had happened to his father all those years ago and if it meant he could stamp out illegal underhanded betting he was going to do it and if it meant he brought some big names down with him he would, what Clinton did not know was how big this illegal betting was and how many big names within the game and in authority were involved, but things would soon start to unravel and he would find a very unlikely friend who would help.

 

Clinton left his Grandparents house to take the short walk to the promenade to meet up with Cresandra, when his mobile phone starts to ring.

 

“Ring, Ring”

 

“Hello Clinton Radford speaking” Clinton answered

“Clinton, it is Cresandra here” Cresandra replied

“What is wrong is the deal off” Clinton Asked

“No the deal is still on but we are being watched, by your step-father Curtis, he will be watching from a distance” Cresandra replied with some trepidation in her voice

“What, no I can’t do this now, because I have my career to think of now I am in the one day international set up” Clinton replied angrily

“Look Clinton, it will be fine, he is just making sure that the deal goes through for the syndicate, Look I am not double crossing you if that is what you are thinking; I have too much to lose on this, I want my son back and that is why I am doing this and I need your help Please Clinton” Cressandra replied pleading with Clinton to help and not back out of what they were about to do

“OK, I will carry on with it, but you need to know the first time something goes wrong then I go straight to the police and I will and believe me I will drop you in it up to your eyeball and take you down with them, so don’t cross me or let this get out of hand” Clinton replied angrily

“Listen to me please Clinton, I will not cross you and if the worst happens I am willing to face the consequences for my actions, I want out of this life and if I don’t do it now I will never do  it, these people have hurt to many people I have known and the one person I ever truly loved so I want this to happen and if I have to go to the police if it gets nasty and out of hand I will, even if it means I go into witness protection, but we need to get the evidence first to go to the police if there are any left that can be trusted, so does this answer your question, please Clinton I need you” Cressandr replied begging Clinton to trust her

“Ok I am on my way now, I will see you in fifteen minutes” Clinton replied and turned his phone off, thinking to himself he had to do this if only to help Cresandra and to get revenge for the death of his father.

 

As Clinton was walking along the promenade, he could see Cresandra in the distance she was dressed in skin-tight jeans and high heels with a low-cut blue top, she was looking very sexy as she always did in these situations.

 

Clinton walked up to her and shook her hand as they needed to make Curtis James-Rowe think that this was a deal for Clinton to give information on match, team and pitch conditions and not a set up to bring the Syndicate down.

 

 

“Ring, ring”

 

“Hello, Charlie King here” a voice answered

“Hi p it’s Curtis here, she has done the deal, Cresandra has got my lad on side, young Clinton Radford with us and I know it is only information for team, match, pitch and weather conditions, but I am sure with the little minx working her magic, we could get him to fix matches for us” Curtis James-Rowe replied to Charlie King

“Ha ha lovely we have got the rising star of the game of cricket over there with us good now, we can let the boss know and if we have any problems with this bastard he will end up the same way as his father did, you should know about that Curtis my boy you were the one who poisoned him, with the De-icer and those pills that sent him mad, Curtis you know what to do if this happens again” Charlie King replied

“Charlie I know this is not the normal way of doing things, but can I go after his little princess Isabella, I know she is pregnant but that is more fun, making him think that he could lose not just her but these unborn babies as well, please Charlie, I would love to slap that lovely little face of hers and what would make it better is if he could see me do it” Curtis James-Rowe asked Charlie King

“Curtis you are a very, very sick man but I love your thinking, you need to be careful but I do love the idea, but we only use it if and when things go wrong, I am sure you would love to hit that lovely bitch about, just like you did his mother” Charlie King replied

“Damn sure I will, I loved slapping Chelsea and I am sure I will enjoy doing the same to Isabella and watching her beg for her life and have him powerless to do anything about it with be great” Curtis James-Rowe replied to Charlie King

“OK” replied Charlie King as he then put the phone down and turned to the boss who was with Charlie at the time of the call and said “That Curtis James-Rowe is an absolute nut case”

“What do you mean” replied the boss

“Well he wants to take that Isabella bird of Clinton Radford and by the way Cresandra done the business and got him on side, yeah Curtis wants to slap the girl all over the place a nutter if you ask me, that’s why” Charlie King replied looking at the boss but he could see by the boss’ face that this was not what is to happen

“YOU FUCKING LISTEN TO ME AND LISTEN TO ME GOOD P IF ANYTHING, ANYTHING HAPPENS TO THAT GIRL, SEE YOU AND CURTIS WILL BE CUT UP, NO SORRY WILL BE STUNG UP, NOT BY MY HENCH MEN BUT BY ME SO YOU GET ON THE PHONE AND YOU TELL HIM HE LAYS ONE FINGER ON ISABELLA AND THAT IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN GOT  IT” The Boss replied to Charlie King shouting at the top of his voice and pointing straight at Charlie King

 

Charlie King could only stand and stare straight at The Boss and nod his head to say yes to what had just been said, but all that went through his head was why did The Boss get so angry about this Isabella girl did he know her personally or was it that he did not want anything to happen to a pregnant woman yet years ago he wanted to take James Radford’s unborn baby from Clinton’s mother and throw it to the wolves, was he getting a heart in his old age or was there more to this than meets the eye, only time would tell on this but he had to now tell Curtis James-Rowe that Isabella Thomas was not to be touched in any way, shape or form.

 

 

 

   

 

       

 

 

Clinton arrived back from his meeting with Cresandra, with a large brown envelope that contained ten thousand pounds for his part of the deal to provide the information that he would be asked for, he looked at his grandmother and said “Here is the money gran and I don’t care what you do with it burn it for all I care, I have kept to my part of the deal”

“But have you Clinton But have you” Georgia, Clintons Grandmother replied

“What are you on about” Clinton replied

“Well have you kept to you side of the deal yet, because they will come asking you soon, now you have taken this money they will think they have got you and you will have to come up trumps for them” Georgia replied

“Well what can I do about it” replied Clinton

“All you can do at the moment is going along with what they want but don’t give them the truth” Georgia replied to Clinton

“So then Gran you want me to lie to them, give them false information, but what if they find out I am lying they will go after mum and Isabella” Clinton replied

“Clinton my boy, they will believe whatever you tell them as you are the one they are asking, so tell them what they want to hear” Georgia replied

“So the gran when I get the phone call and say they ask me if so and so is playing tell them no and if they ask if the pitch is going to be a green and the ball will seam and we will bowl first, then I tell them we will bat first and it is as flat as a pancake, if they ask if it is cloudy and the ball will swing, I say no it is sunny and we are going to bat first” Clinton replied

“that’s my boy you got it, you tell them what you want them to hear not what they want to hear, that way you can string them along and they will think you are on their side” replied Georgia

“But gran I have never told a lie in my life and I don’t think I could start now” replied Clinton

“Clinton if you don’t then people are going to get hurt and not just your mother and Isabella, have you not forgot what happened the other day when you met Cresandra down on the sea front when I got warned in the lane, all I ask is you think hard about it, I will put this money in the safe deposit box I have and you can do with it what you want when and if you have to” Georgia replied

“I know what you are saying is right gran but I am worried as I get the feeling these people are nasty work and would hurt us even if I did what they wanted me to do” Clinton replied

“Yes Clinton they are nasty work, but if you stay on the right side of them, then nothing will happen to you or anyone else, but get on the wrong side of them and you could end up, well as they say in mafia country in concrete boots at the bottom of the river, so all I say is stay on side with them and you, your mother and Isabella will be ok, if you don’t, we need I say more” Georgia replied with a look of determination in her eyes

Clinton replied to his Gran “I will do anything to look after and protect Isabella and the babies when they are born and if you are right in what you say then I will go along with it but should anything happen to Mum or Isabella I will not hesitate and go straight to the police with what information I have”

“But Clinton you have no information, I am the only one who has that information but should something ever happen to me then you know were the letter is and I ask you to use the information I have wisely” replied Georgia

“Ok Gran I will do that and thank you, I will go along with this farce, until such a time that I feel I can do it no more and have to tell the truth” Clinton replied

“Ok my boy and I do hope you never have to use the information I have” Georgia replied

“I hope I never have to gran” Clinton replied   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ring, ring

 

“Hello Cresandra Drake speaking”

“Hello Miss Drake, Georgia Thompson speaking we need to meet up and have a chat” Georgia Clintons Grandmother replied

“What about” asked Cresandra

“Well let’s just say it is about Clinton and the information I have in my and if you want the names of the syndicate, you will meet me, you already know who The Boss is as do I but if we are going to bring The boss down we need to get to the rest of them first” Georgia replied with some nervousness in her voice

“So Mrs Thompson you have a plan” asked Cresandra

“Yes but we need to meet up and take it from there” Georgia replied

“OK where and when, I am intrigued” asked Cresandra

“Listen to me good Miss Drake, we will meet at the waterfront café and bar harbour side at Three this afternoon and please don’t be late” replied Georgia

“OK I’ll be there” replied Cresandra as her mobile phone went dead, she turned it off, turned and looked in the mirror in her bedroom and could see she had a confused look on her face as to what Georgia Thompson had just said.

 

Georgia turned to the two people who were sat in her living room they were DC. Joe Murray and DI. Kathy Carter, who Georgia and Clinton had contacted earlier that day about their conversation they had, had with Cresandra as both were concerned about it being a trap, she had given the two police officers a piece of paper with a list of names on who were the syndicate except for one name that of the boss who Georgia was keeping to herself, on the list were:-

 

Charlie (P) King a Hong Kong business man, born in England and a Multi-Millionaire

 

Imran Iqbal High commissioner of The Pakistani Cricket Board and Multi-Millionaire

 

Curtis James-Rowe The fixer and enforcer

 

Terry Wilson Agent and Millionaire

 

Allen Anderson Swedish Banker and Backer for some of the European deals

 

Huw Vincent an American oil billionaire north and South American backer

 

Chou Huo Yang Chinese publishing Billionaire

 

“Thank you very much Mrs Thompson and you Clinton you have both been very helpful, with giving us this information, go along with the meeting and we will be there sitting very close to come in when the time is right, but ultimately if Miss Drake wants to bring the syndicate down, we will have to gain her trust and we will need her to work with us” replied DI. Kathy Carter

“OK I am sure I can persuade her to do that she seems to want to get out of the blackmail game so for now I think we can trust her” replied Georgia

 

With that DC Joe Murray and DI Carter left the Thompson house and would meet up with Georgia and Clinton later in the day.

 

 

 

“Ring, Ring”

 

“Hello Charlie King speaking”

“Hello Charlie, its J here got a bit of information for you, are you sitting down” the voice said at the other end

“Yes I am J, so what have you got for me” replied Charlie King

“Well just had an interesting conversation with a woman called Georgia Thompson, this morning and she has given this list of names I am just e-mailing them to you now” the voice replied

“Really, the computer is on and I am waiting with anticipation” Charlie King replied

 

The he heard a clip of a mouse button on the computer, at the other end Charlie King received the following e-mail:-

 

Hi Charlie

 

 

Here is the list of name’s I received this morning; you will find the names very interesting to yourself including your own.

 

Charlie (P) King a Hong Kong business man, born in England and a Multi-Millionaire

 

Imran Iqbal High commissioner of The Pakistani Cricket Board and Multi-Millionaire

 

Curtis James-Rowe The fixer and enforcer

 

Terry Wilson Agent and Millionaire

 

Allen Anderson Swedish Banker and Backer for some of the European deals

 

Huw Vincent an American oil billionaire north and South American backer

 

Chou Huo Yang Chinese publishing Billionaire

 

With that Charlie King started to speak to his contact on the other end of the phone.

 

“I see there are a couple of names missing The Boss being one” Charlie King replied with a chuckle in his voice at what he was reading, he went on to say “This woman has not got a clue, but I will give her ten out of ten for effort though”

“Charlie got to go someone is coming but just to let you know This Thompson woman has got a meeting this afternoon with Cresandra, they are planning to bring you down, so be careful and I will be in touch when I have more for you” the voice replied

“I will, thank you for the warning and you take care to” replied Charlie King both phones then went dead.