Enemy Within: A heart-wrenching medical mystery (British Military Thriller Series Book 3) by Nathan Burrows

Author:Nathan Burrows [Burrows, Nathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-30T16:00:00+00:00

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“Hannah, I’m sorry,” Adams said for what must have been the tenth time since they’d left the Murderers. They were standing by a taxi rank on St Stephens Street, waiting for a cab that seemed to him to be taking forever to arrive. “I thought you knew about Lizzie.”

“Seriously?” Hannah replied. “Do you seriously think I would have asked you back to my flat if I’d known?” She was shivering in the cool evening and had her arms wrapped around herself.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t think that was going to happen.”

When Hannah had kissed Adams in the corner of the pub, for a fleeting moment, he’d kissed her back. He tried to tell himself it was more out of instinct than anything else, but he realised two things in the few seconds their lips had been touching. The first was that he badly wanted to go to bed with this woman. The second, and far more pressing, was that he should never have got himself into the situation he was in. Adams had broken away from the kiss, and when Hannah had looked at him with an inquiring expression, he’d said the first of many apologies.

“Look at it from my point of view,” Hannah said, glaring at him. “There’s a bloke who I’ve liked for bloody ages who suddenly sends me a text saying I’m lonely. Let’s get pissed. Then we do just that and it turns out that the reason he’s lonely is because his girlfriend’s just left the country and he wants to take his mind off it.”

“I’m sorry, Hannah.”

“Oh, for fuck’s sake, would you stop apologising,” Hannah said. “I just feel stupid, that’s all. Totally misread it.”

“Look, I never meant to give you the wrong impression.”

“No, tell you what,” Hannah said, her face softening. “How about I apologise for presuming that you would just jump into bed with me?”

“You don’t need to apologise for anything. I’d love to jump into bed with you, but I can’t.”

“Do you know why I was late meeting you?” Hannah asked him.

“No?”

“I was changing the bedding, doing some female personal admin, and making sure that I’d not left anything lying around my flat that would embarrass you.”

“Er, thank you?”

“Not the right answer, Adams,” Hannah said, and he was relieved to see a faint smile on her face. “But you’re not the only one who’s lonely.” Her smile faded. “Don’t apologise again.”

Adams closed his mouth. He had been about to do just that.

“Are you sure you don’t want a kebab?” he asked as a taxi approached them.

“Thanks, but I’m good.” Hannah took a few steps toward Adams and put her arms around him. Then she kissed him on the cheek and whispered in his ear. “She’s a lucky woman, this Lizzie. That’s all I’m saying.” Then she got into the taxi.

As he watched the taillights of the taxi recede into the distance, Adams blew his breath out from between his cheeks. The truth was, he felt awful. When Hannah had sat next to him

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