Dead Fall by Robian Elbar

Author:Robian Elbar [Elbar, Robian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-09T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 32

One thing that was sticking in my throat and beginning to loom like a dark cloud in the back of my mind: Markovic. I just couldn't let it go. I thought that being up here and out of Constantin's cross hairs would take my mind away from the manner in which I had been wronged.

The father of my child, now dead, all because Markovic was trying to get back at Braqueur. Not my problem then, but all my problem now.

"You okay?" Roxy asked.

"Sorry, yeah, just thinking."

We were heading to a spa on the coast called Pebbles. There was a bistro, and this made all the difference to Roxy. Agatha was even in for the ride.

It was quite a drive over to the coast. The location, a stunning view of South Ayrshire. The beach was hard and northern. Everything was moving with the storm. The tall grass blowing horizontally and the grey sea rolling in high waves, like it was boiling oil.

Inside, the smell of chlorine and oils. We changed into robes and slippers, headed for the pool area and loungers. Roxy and Agatha were booked in for hot stone treatments, so they left me to lounge on my own. The place was empty but for me.

A young woman in a black uniform, made up to the nines, with skin so smooth it was hard to believe, brought me another coffee. I thanked her; she smiled and left me to myself.

I didn't want to indulge in anything. I didn't want to do anything that might jeopardise my pregnancy. Even though I hadn't really made my mind up what I needed to do. Or wanted to do. I wanted the baby, that much I did know. I wanted to kill Markovic. I wanted to get back to my life. I wanted Constantin to come to terms with the fact that his brother was dead and go home. I wanted Agatha to solve the case. I wanted…

That was all I had left; desires. Wishes. Immature as the Wizard of Oz and the Emerald City.

I didn't want to face the fact that I was running out of time to decide whether I would extinguish the life of my own child, or risk my own.

God knows I should have deserved this. I supposed that my own life didn't matter. Some philosopher once said a man is only truly happy once he has died. That applied to women too.

The sea crashed against the rocks as the sun dipped to the distant horizon; it was quite beautiful.

Helping Agatha with her case felt like a distraction. I needed to get back to Manchester. If Constantin was heading this way, then if I set off and headed south, we would miss each other on the motorway. Lucian wouldn't be happy with my return; so what? I could help with Markovic; lead him out into the open, then deliver him. Take out the man who had been the architect of all my misery. Taking Nick's life, as I did, was engineered by this man.

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