Circle of Lies (Morecambe Bay Trilogy Book 2) by Paul J. Teague

Author:Paul J. Teague [Teague, Paul J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clixeo Publishing
Published: 2019-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

‘I’m so sorry I put you on the spot like that,’ Steven Terry apologised, for the third time. ‘If I’d known it was you, I would have moved on.’

‘It’s all right, honestly,’ Charlotte replied. After a few moments of intense embarrassment, she’d quickly rationalised that what he’d said was meaningless to the entire room, apart from her and Will.

Will had been floored momentarily, giving her a guilty look across the table. Then he’d dismissed it with his usual scepticism.

‘That’s how these people reel you in,’ he said, once the spotlight had moved on to another area of the room. ‘I’ll bet there were people all around us who were thinking about affairs, stuff stolen from work, or lies told to family members. The entire room was probably sweating at that point in the show. I still think it’s a load of nonsense.’

Just over an hour later, Will was showing signs of changing his tune. Steven Terry had joined them after his short segment had ended, apologetic for what he’d just put Charlotte through. He insisted on buying a bottle of bubbly, took them to a VIP area to one side of the room, and proceeded to entertain them with gripping stories about the things he’d sensed in the past.

Charlotte had become slowly more inebriated, and although Will had switched to soft drinks, he too was in awe of Steven’s ability to enthral his audience. He pushed the clairvoyant about how he did it, repeating his claims about plants in the audience and selecting general topics which applied to half the room, but the things that Steven told them made him seem all the more convincing.

‘I don’t want to pry or interfere,’ Steven said, slurring his words a little from the drink, ‘but you must confide in the police if you’re in danger or fear for your safety. I know what’s going on in this town at the moment; I found one of the bodies, as you know. And you found another, Charlotte. Something links all of this.’

‘Can’t you see what it is?’ Will asked. ‘Surely you know what’s going on, if you have visions and so on?’

‘It doesn’t work like that,’ Steven explained. ‘I get a sense of things. I can feel sadness, tragedy, impending danger. I don’t see the specifics. But I feel it very strongly with you two, and it’s the same sense I got when I found the body at the Winter Gardens. You need to take action. DCI Summers will give you a sympathetic ear. She’s not all rules and procedure.’

‘What do you know about Harvey Turnbull?’ Charlotte asked, feeling her leg drifting away from her chair as she began to lose full control of it. She knew she needed to stop drinking now, or she’d suffer the next day.

‘Nothing,’ Steven answered, ‘Though it is a name I overheard DCI Summers mention. Should I know who he is?’

‘He’s connected with whatever is going on at the moment. He committed suicide at Adventure Kingdom several years ago.

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