“Matthews was amazing,” Ahmed enthused on the way to the train station. “He"d arranged all that information since we met on Friday and organised some credit for you to be going on with.”
“Amazingly crass, is what I"d say. Every time the smug bastard looked in my direction, I felt he was undressing me with his eyes,” Sally replied.
Tom nodded cautiously. “I agree with your appraisal of Matthews, Sally. Much as setting up the account has been a good help to me, I"m sure he was trying to play a fast one. Yes, he"d gotten lots of information together, but I"m not sure I trust him. He"s a control freak. He wants to have us under his thumb. If we"d accepted what he"d offered then we"d have lost all our independence, anything we"ve done or do in the future would be tainted. As it is, he"s done
