Chapter 349 - What!?!

22 April, City Park, City K

Following David's instructions Joan walked towards a bench where she could see him sitting. As she reached the location, he put forward a bag, and said "Phone, tablet, watch and any other electrical device in here. Plus remove your earrings, and head over to the toilet block" pointing to a nearby public rest room "and remove the devices you have on and in you, before putting the into the box, and we will put them into the bag when you get back here."

Following instructions Joan moved to the toilet block and quickly removed every device David wanted before placing them into the box she had removed from her handbag and headed back out. David placed that and Joan's handbag and his wallet into the bag before handing it to one of the guards and stating, "Take this and leave us for twenty minutes."

A round of nods ensued and the guards moved away. David said, "Come with me," and walked with Joan into an open area within the part.

After he looked around, he stated "Sorry for the secrecy, but this is a conversation I did not want to have with anyone around or that could easily be eavesdropped on."

Joan looked at him puzzled. This was not the possessive demanding man from the previous thirty-six hours. Why the sudden change in attitude?

"I secured your identity doc.u.ments and after we finish here, I want us to head to the Civil Affairs Bureau and obtain our marriage certificate. You will get the wedding we spoke about, but I want to head off trouble. Naomi, that b*tch intends to discredit you. I had no idea she had planned what she did this morning and is getting ready to try and shop around that footage along with footage taken of our consensual activities. I created the problem. It is no secret that I have had other lovers in the past, some of which have previously joined us consensually. But they have understood the score, I any loyal to them during the relationship whatever we do, but it is not permanent, nor would I consider marrying them. Naomi was one of them. The problem is that of my own making. Naomi is a brilliant programmer, and as one of the key company personnel I have her live-in accommodation under my control. Business wise that is to protect the company, prevent hacking, and protect them. Until I relocated here, the company was spread throughout the country over multiple sites with my key IT people were based wherever I was based. That always had Naomi close to me which unintentionally had her believe there was more to the relationship than there ever was, and we know that she is not taking our relationship well. Hence what she is doing. Marrying will change the optics from her portrayal of you as a s*x crazed woman who would do it with anyone, to a mature a.d.u.l.t in a consensual relationship that can at times involve other a.d.u.l.ts. Nothing illegal, but something some more conservative members of society may find morally repugnant in being exposed publicly. At the same time, it will shift the view of what she did as being revenge driven and design to ruin a relationship that was committed to marriage."

"What!"

"Joan, go for a walk, have a think about it. All I want to do is protect you from her, but it is your choice."

Taking the suggestion, Joan stood up and walked away. As she left one of his minions came up and said, "Boss you are certain on throwing Naomi away like this?"

"She thinks I am stupid, led only by achieving s*xual gratification. Not the case, but that b*tch wants to manipulate those who we will use as suicide bombers to try to undermine me through saying I cannot control my s*x crazed woman, damaging my public face and attempting to overthrow me. That will not succeed, because we have been wise to her activities of feeding information to the government. She thinks we do not know, hence her actions but she has given us the perfect basis to use her, get rid of the mole and set up plausible deniability for the company if things get tracked back to us."

"How do you want me to play this."

"No one knows other than the couple of people we have told. The more that know, the more risk there to the suicide bombers being detected before they act and risking the plans to destroy the electronic infrastructure of the county. The physical devastation from the suicide bombers will result in the country turning to the electronic information systems which will give is the effect that we want. Unless she gets a sale to a media company, we will launch the pre-emptive strike in a couple of days, forcing her to go on the run…"

"Creating the image to the authorities she has something hide and moving up the suicide bomber attacks making sure some of them are seen on footage just before the detonation to portray this as revenge."

"Exactly. I have not taken us this far to be tripped up by a b*tch who wants to crash everything simply because I did not choose her to be the woman the public view as mine, and has been working for years to try and destroy me."

David looked up and noticed that Joan was coming back towards him. He stood up and walked towards her, saying "Do you need more time?"

"David, I want the truth, you seem like two different people in the one body. The caring supporting man that you are today and have shown me in the past, and the evil vindictive punishing man like yesterday. I want the you that you are today, not that other you."

"Joan, this is the true me. I needed to test Naomi to determine what extremes she would go to, to ensure that I could protect you. But I never expected to go to that extent. I have to apologise." With that he leant over and gently kissed her on the forehead.

"Promise me you will not change, and they we will go and do this."

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