Retribution

CHAPTER FIVE.

  September 22nd. Hellenikon Airport.

  ‘Hello gorgeous, fancy a bit of company on the flight? Who knows what might happen when we get to London?’ A suggestive look and a confident smile accompanied the words.

  ‘Got your brains in your scrotum?’ Anna snapped, ‘Get lost you slime ball!’ She stopped the man dead; his mouth open, his line of chat cut off. Heads turned. Unable to meet Anna’s steady gaze the young man went red and turned away.

  ‘He might have got away with it with someone else,’ Anna thought to herself, he was good-looking, but far too flash for her taste. She had taken in his finery in her first cool glance; a shimmering, grey silk suit, with carefully matched grey leather shoes and a black silk shirt. Several chunky gold rings and a thick gold chain bracelet were on display. ‘There will be a gold medallion, and a gold Rolex in there somewhere,’ Anna thought. She was right; the gold Rolex was flashed on the pretext of checking the time, and the chain and medallion showed at the open neck of the black silk shirt.

  Elegant, beautiful and with the poise and confidence of a model, Anna had had to put up with unwanted chat-up routines far too often to be polite about it anymore. ‘Got me figured for arm candy; serves him right,’ Anna thought, then she caught the amused smile of a man sitting opposite her. He had obviously been watching the chat-up attempt and was trying not to laugh. His eyes were twinkling behind a pair of steel-framed spectacles, which gave him a slightly scholarly appearance. Anna thought she saw him wink.

  She gave him a wicked grin. He was wearing a well-cut lightweight navy blue suit, white cotton shirt and neat tie. He was well dressed in a way the other man would never achieve.

  Anna, her eyes involuntarily sparkling back at his, began to speculate. There was something familiar about his face. If this man made an approach her response would be quite different.