Church of Sin (The Ether Book 1) by James Costall

Author:James Costall
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: James Costall
Published: 2014-02-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 51

Ash replaced the phone in his pocket. Answer message again. Why wasn’t she picking up?

He was sitting at home, not really having much of a desire to go to work just yet. His desk was a mess, more messy than usual. Three weeks of paperwork untouched. A station record. He was losing track of the number of problems he had to resolve: Eph Speck crucified in his own home, Katelyn’s body taken, Megan kidnapped, a whole bunch of dead people in a church and now Alix had gone AWOL. And three weeks worth of untouched paperwork.

He had no leads save for the connection between the guy who worked at Innsmouth who Alix had recognised as being on the CCTV footage at the hospital where Katelyn was taken. It might have been nothing at all. The picture was lousy and she could easily have been mistaken but he had given the image to Keera to follow up on and emailed Harker to see if he could get access to the employee records at Innsmouth. It was bloody ridiculous that he didn’t have access to that information with so many bodies and two missing children.

He buried his head in his hands, tried to clear his mind. Think. What was going on?

The doorbell shook him from the depths of his thoughts. He pulled the curtain back a little and stared outside, saw the back of a van outside his front porch and frowned. Who was calling at this hour and why did they bring a van? He tucked his shirt into his trousers, did up the last few buttons, and went to open the door.

Penny stood at the door beaming oddly at him. Behind her, men were unloading furniture draped in plastic sheets.

“Through here?” one of them shouted.

“Yes!” Penny called back, waving the removal men through the front gate. They ambled past her, two of them lugging what was apparently a sofa.

“Penny,” said Ash, “what- what the Hell is this?”

“New furniture for you, sweetheart,” she said, running up the steps behind the removal men and gently caressing his cheek before following them through to his hallway.

“The lounge is at the back,” she instructed. “Through there.”

“But I didn’t order any new furniture. I don’t need any new furniture,” he protested. “Why have you done this?”

“Your old stuff was pretty crappy, Asher. Out with the old and in with the new, as they say.” She smiled. There was too much gum when she smiled, he thought. That was perhaps where he had gone wrong in the first place. Ignoring the gum-to-tooth ratio.

“Down here?” one of the burly removal men asked, while standing in his lounge, eyeing up his old sofa. He cut Penny off quickly.

“No, actually,” he said. “Actually, I didn’t order any of this stuff.”

The removal man looked at him blankly, obviously not used to being given anything other than instructions about where to put things and where to take things. He studied the paperwork in his back pocket.

“You Mr Fielding?”

“Yes, but-”

“Then this is yours.

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