Chapter 37: Flirty Emails and Awkward Lunches

An hour later, I'm sitting in my office. I've dialled my mother's number, and I'm just waiting for her to pick up. The phone is on speakerphone, and I'm typing an email as I wait.

"Hello Landon." I hear her voice as she answers my call. She sounds tired.

"How are you, Mum?" I ask as I finish off an email to Andrew Contius about the new accounts he is taking on in the interim.

"I'm very well, son. I understand you went out to dinner last night with your father."

"Yes."

"And he told you?"

She's worried; I can hear it in her voice.

"He didn't give me details just said he was dying."

"I wanted to know if you wanted to get lunch," I ask her. "I don't mind sending Henry to pick you up if you are in Surrey."

"No," she replies quickly. "I'm already in the city. Where should we meet?"

"How about Thorpe's? I know Jarrod will be delighted to see you."