Dangerous Love...: A Studs & Steel Novella by Heather Mar-Gerrison

Author:Heather Mar-Gerrison [Mar-Gerrison, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7 – Reporting an incident...

Mason

I hadn’t heard from Hendrix in a few days, which was pretty normal but it never went past Sunday... Every Sunday since we first met he’d arrived at the house at around seven thirty in the evening.

He’d been acting pretty weird last time I saw him too, which was really beginning to freak me out. Where the hell was he?

I decided to go around to his bedsit to see for myself what was going down.

I had no idea if his cousins would be around, but they didn’t know anything about me. I’d just take a veggie box round with me and pretend to be a delivery boy...

I knocked on his door but there was no answer. No one was around so I tried the door and found it open. Fuck... what the hell was going on? No one would leave their door unlocked in this neighbourhood, surely...?

I went in and the sight that met my eyes made me want to throw up and shit myself all at the same time. There was blood everywhere. Fucking hell... someone had killed him.

With shaking hands I pulled out my mobile phone and I called the police instantly.

Two officers were sent immediately. The shorter of the two of them approached me, “Mason Fairbrother?” he asked.

I nodded, “Uh, yeah.”

He smiled, “DC Colby – I understand that you’re a friend of Hendrix McCarthy?”

I nodded, “Yeah, he’s kind of my boyfriend actually – we’ve only been seeing each other for a few weeks but I hadn’t heard from him in a few days and I was beginning to worry.”

He frowned, “Why?” he asked, “how often do you see him?”

I took a deep breath. There was no point in trying to evade his questions. If Hendrix was still alive and could be saved from his terrible family, I wanted that to happen. “Not too often. Usually only twice a week – Wednesday nights and Sunday mornings – but we text a lot and I haven’t heard from him since Thursday morning when he left...”

“You’re sleeping together?”

I nodded, “He’s my boyfriend.” I said, “Or at least, that’s what I’d really like him to be...”

He frowned at me, “Are you aware that Hendrix is well known to the police as a rent-boy?”

It annoyed me that they knew and allowed it to go on under their noses, never stepping in to help. I nodded, “He’s been saving up to get out...”

The officer rolled his eyes, “Yeah, yeah.” He said, “They all say that.”

I felt my heart sinking. He was probably right. He’d see this sort of thing every day and I was just a naïve bumpkin who thought he could save him but I was sure there was more to my relationship with Hendrix than that... “Please try to find him – he’s got to be in a bad way.”

He nodded gravely, “We’ve got an idea where he might be, actually.” He said, “Try not to worry. I’m sure we’ll find him alive.”

I nodded. I had a feeling he was worth more to his cousin alive than dead too – but the guy was a fucking nutter.

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