Deadly Diagnosis (The Dr. Cathy Moreland Mysteries) by Mairi Chong

Author:Mairi Chong [Chong, Mairi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloodhound Books
Published: 2022-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

21

When Holly woke it was nearly midday. She was surprised to be completely free of a headache and only the slightest taste of vomit played on her lips. Getting up, she explored her surroundings. She was glad to find that she had had the foresight after months of rehearsal, to place a pint of water by her bedside. The kitchen and bathroom were more chaotic. A trail of her clothes led from the front door, now a well-established routine. Her jacket lay, its arm outstretched in a beckoning, come-hither manner. Her top, jeans and underwear were less comically displayed, and when she did finally bother to pick up and redistribute the mess, she found that a sock was missing. God knows what had become of it.

But the truth of the matter was that she was far less indisposed than she should have been that morning, and for very good reason. Holly wasn’t a complete idiot after all. She trusted Alex no more than the rest of the charity shop bunch and going to his house on the pretext of letting her hair down had been, of course, part of the plan. She had perhaps let herself relax a little too much and that was unfortunate, but had she gone all out on the vodka as he had thought she was doing, she would have been incapable of self-defence, and might easily have ended up unconscious on his living room floor.

Considering that Alex was still very much a suspect, Holly had decided to water-down some of her drinks the previous night and had determined never to allow Alex to mix one in case he slipped something into the glass. She had been facetious about him date-raping her, but one could never be too careful. To make doubly sure, on returning home, she had stuck her fingers down her throat. Good for cleansing the body of unwanted toxins.

As she padded around her small flat, unable to put the heating fully up due to her lack of credit, she thought over what she had gained through her alliance with Alex. He had been all too eager to come up with motives for his charitable colleagues. Admittedly, he had been egged on, and might well have been showing off, or trying to get into her good-books, but it did speak volumes about his character. Holly had never befriended a police officer before, but she wasn’t so sure that this was normal behaviour for one, even if they had taken medical retirement. She thought back to what Alex had told her about his work and about how saddened he was to leave what he clearly saw as his vocation. Last night, he had become less inhibited, although she was quite aware that he was pacing himself and unwilling to completely let himself go. Towards the end of the evening, they had discussed his work once again. ‘Eight years in February,’ he had kept repeating. ‘Eight bloody years.’ It was at that point, when he appeared to be becoming maudlin, that she had decided to call it a night.

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