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Love Soul Heaven Hell – Chapter II
“Umm..I think so. But I’m not so confident, yet, about how you intend to keep her safe,” she answered.
She and Bette were leaving the following week to go on their honeymoon, but they intended to stop by Hyderabad first. Mike still hadn’t called either of them, and Tina was trying to figure out what to do, with regard to Brom’s news and proposed personal security strategy.
He nodded, “The strategy is kinda difficult to explain, and this does require close coordination with Mike. I spoke with Mike at the wedding, to tell him what I knew, and he sort of agreed to what I was thinking…I wanted to consult further with him later on, but haven’t been able to get in touch with him ever since the wedding. We’d only been able to go over the basic principles of what I was planning.”
“So, no one else knows about Bette but you? No one in your firm?,” Tina asked.
“No…no one. As I tried to explain to you and Bette when we visited you last Sunday, when the firm took that job several years ago, it was almost pro bono, on behalf of a group of people who were board members of key museums, including someone in the royal family, and some of Luke’s friends here in New York, and political bigwigs in Washington. I kept all the relevant information compartmentalized, because our analysis showed there was huge potential for conflicts of interest between the various museums who had linked together to give my firm this job.”
He paused to eat some of his lunch. “I made sure each one involved only knew what they had to know. So the museums, who were our clients, only knew that there had been a scheme in place to find and secure the horde of art, but nothing about how it was discovered. The men who went to your hotel room only knew that Bette had been a person of interest who we needed to secure or safeguard.”
“So it’s really still Mike and his fellow agents, Bette, myself, Kit, and now you, who know about all of that, and how Bette relates to the case, right?,” Tina asked anxiously.
He nodded. After a few minutes, he said, “There’s one thing that we should be clear on between us, Tina.”
Tina steeled herself, clearing her mind of still-confused thoughts about how Brom was planning to keep Bette safe — to make sure she wouldn’t misunderstand what he was about to say.
“I may not tell you everything that my agents will report back to me, as we carry out protection of Bette, and you and Angelica,” as his face was to the sun, he squinted a bit as he spoke.
“Why not?”
“Because you’ll only be on a need to know basis, Tina. Only Bette will get everything that pertains to all aspects of this job. And I’ll be the one briefing her, no one else.”
“Well Bette and I don’t have any secrets between us, Brom.”
He continued to shake his head.
“Bette is very, very protective of you, Tina. She may have to make a decision at some point to protect you, and I will want to support that decision. Because really, she’s my main client here. It will help us, she and I, if we each dealt primarily with one another.”
Tina’s eyebrows were knit together. “Well I’m very, very protective of her, too, Brom. And I’ll only step aside now, if you give me your word. Your word Bromwell Skinner. That you won’t let any harm come to her. Nothing happens to her, you understand?,” she asked.
“Give me your word, Bromwell.”
Brom stayed silent.
“Your word. If you had to choose between her and me… if a situation came up, heaven forbid, that you would have to, then choose her. Her life. Your word, Bromwell,” she said, with increasingly urgent tones, seeing he remained unresponsive.
He looked away from Tina, to gaze out the picture window at the street scene.
After a while, he looked back at the blonde, and quietly said, “Please, Tina.”
“She lives. That’s my only condition,” Tina said firmly.
Tina was unwavering, continuing to stare at Brom. After a few minutes, Brom nodded imperceptibly.
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Hi! Always interesting – where is Angelica during time when Bette and Tina always bussy with their guests? She’s not crying, she didn’t not feeding, changed diapers and etc.?
For me seems that Bette and Tina neglecting their daughter because they to busy play in “aristocrats”