James’s eyes never move away from Audrey with him clearly using this opportunity to gain as much information as he can about her. He’s starting to grow more and more certain that the girl might actually be a submissive which is great as he hopes that her inexperience will lead to a foolish mistake; one that he can exploit leading to him getting a huge advantage not just over her but over Miss Redver as well.<br/><br/>The man remains quiet as he can see the flushed cheeks while their knuckles brace against each other, a very soft and very quick movement but one that he surely noticed. A little bit unexpected is the placing of the bottle between them with him leaning back into his chair a wide grin on his face as everything sofar is going smooth, really smooth even.<br/><br/>James listens calmly to Audrey’s words with the grin fading away from his face before he smiles kindly at her. “Great, I didn’t do it as I am very happy with my replica”, he says kindly before getting up from his seat. “I will leave to continue your investigation miss LaBelle, have a great day”, the man continues kindly with him taking his bottle of beer while walking away to the bar. For a moment the young lady can see that he’s talking to the bartender while he’s giving the bartender some money, probably to pay for their drinks but what she doesn’t know is that James actually pays for all her drinks; even the ones to come later on.<br/><br/>As sudden as Mister Thackery arrived, the sudden he’s gone once again with the blonde perhaps seeing him walking to his car before driving off. As he walks past the window he looks inside with a confident smile on his face as he feels quite victorious. The first battle between them is over and surely both of them will realize that James is the winner of it.<br/><br/>But Audrey doesn’t know that he’s far from done with her in the car he contacts the hacker once again to hack the laptop she’s been working on while the hacker must find out as much as he can as possible. James wants to know what her agenda is and more importantly who she’s in contact with as she might vanish and it would be best if the people who could end up looking for her remain clueless off her vanishing.<br/><br/>Less than half an hour later James is home with him seated on his couch a glass of wine in his hands while the big football match is one. His laptop right next to him with him glancing to the side only to have a small grin arriving in his face upon seeing the message on it. “We got someone who can pose as her; give the word and she’ll be here soon enough ready to do what you tell her”, the message reads with him placing the glass down. “Do it”, he types before sending the message and closing the laptop while placing his hands behind his head, the first phase of his plan is set in motion, now all the has to do is wait for Audrey to mess up and everything will work out perfectly for him. The painting is his and it will remain his if his plan works out as planned.