One Shots 'The nursery nurse'

The Betrayal Part IV

When Roger entered the kitchen, he immediately spotted Janice and Siobhan.

"What are you doing here?"

Janice smiled at him. " Well, Roger, we have a little problem. Our bugs have been found."

" What!" Roger's voice echoed through the house. Siobhan flinched. "How do you know that?"

Janice raised her phone. "Our little birdie told me. Your daughter figured it out. She ripped all the fire alarms off the ceilings, and I don't think she did it to do an inspection."

Siobhan looked back and forth between the two of them. She had to know who the other spy was. "Who is it? Who is the other spy?" she asked cautiously.

"That's none of your business," said Roger sternly.

"I think it is. I need to know who I can trust."

"Siobhan! We wouldn't be in this situation if you'd kept your mouth shut and didn't put Marjorie on the trail!" He slapped his hand on the kitchen counter. Siobhan ducked out of reflex, Janice took another sip from her glass.

" Also, Mia is back in town. She is with your daughter right now, your son and Marjorie are also there.", Janice smiled to herself.

Roger got red in the face. "I'll get changed, and then we'll discuss how to proceed."

" Roger? Can I smoke in here?" Janice asked in a soft voice.

"Whatever." Roger mumbled and disappeared.

The cigarette smoke immediately filled the room. Siobhan felt sick. Not just from the smoke, but the mix with it and Janice's far too sweet perfume.

"You know Siobhan, you're playing the game wrong."

The blonde looked away, she could no longer look this woman in the eye.

" I had a man like that. Rich, arrogant, temperamental. But when it came to me, he was a wimp. You just have to know how to manipulate then."

Siobhan stood up and walked away a little to escape the smoke. "You can't manipulate Roger."

Janice laughed. "Everyone can be manipulated. We women not only have our tears to get what we want, our strongest weapon is between our legs. You're just too weak to use it."

The blonde felt even more sick, the nights she lay trapped under Roger came back to her.

"But don't worry. I'll take care of him. You can never have enough money," Janice said, taking another drag from her cigarette and then ashing into the now empty wine glass.

Siobhan was done with this woman. "You're so full of yourself! What if I tell Roger you're after him?"

Janice smiled at her. " You're welcome to do that. But three things will happen afterwards. Firstly, he won't believe you, especially after your little misstep at the Nursery. Secondly, I will send him the recordings of your last meetings with Vivian. Thirdly, you and she will disappear from the scene afterwards. Do you want that Bon-Bon?"

There was silence in the Nursery break room. Charlotte just stared into emptiness. Sorscha swirled her tea, and Carly tapped on her phone.

"So are we going to talk about it, or are we going to pretend it didn't happen?" Carly finally asked.

Charlotte sighed. " I don't know what to talk about... The whole thing... is just awful... I feel so incredibly sorry for Autumn..."

" I can't believe Winter is so cruel. " Sorscha mumbled

Carly put her phone down and looked up at the ceiling, where the remains of the fire alarm were still hanging. "I can't believe we've been overheard all this time."

Charlotte nodded. She looked out of the window, when three familiar cars pulled up. Mia, Autumn, Reece and Marjorie were coming back.

" You know a thing or two about eavesdropping," said Sorscha with a raised eyebrow.

"What's that supposed to mean?" shouted Carly.

"I'm just saying..."

"Can you please stop arguing. That's the last thing we need right now," said Charlotte.

Sorscha crossed her arms and looked at Charlotte sceptically. "You know, Charlie, I've thought about it, when ever you had to make a phone call, you always left the building... It's almost like you knew this place was bugged."

Charlotte gave her a dirty look. "And you're accusing everyone here right now! Are you trying to put attention away from yourself?"

"Yeah, what's up with you, Sorscha?" shouted Carly.

Sorscha was just about to say something else, when Autumn stepped through the half-open door. " Enough! Sorscha, you're coming with me! Carly, Reece wants to talk to you! Charlotte, you and Marjorie will be in the room today... Luckily there are hardly any children."

When Sorscha entered the office after Autumn, Mia was already there. The redhead had her feet up on the table and gave the Irish a sceptical look.

Sorscha sat down and immediately crossed her arms. "Is this supposed to be an interrogation now?"

"More or less," Mia said.

Autumn pierced Sorscha with her gaze.

Reece had joined Carly in the break room. "Carly, if my dad forces you to do anything or is black mailing you, please tell me."

" You have to believe me, Reece. I have nothing to do with any of this..." Carly said desperately.

Charlotte sighed as she entered the room, Marjorie was already there.

"Everyone's blaming each other, Marjorie..."

"That's the last thing we wanted, but we have to find out if anyone else is spying for Roger," said Marjorie.

" I know... it's just awful..."