Evan Blessed by Rhys Bowen

Author:Rhys Bowen
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2011-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Evan put his foot down and drove as fast as the traffic would allow. Surely Watkins could no longer deny his hunch about Rhodri Llewelyn. A loner with a dominating mother, shy around girls, a music lover who was at home tramping the hills—what more could they want, for God’s sake? Was the holiday leave taken at the last minute like this because he had the girl hidden away somewhere?

A car pulling a large caravan swung out into the traffic from an adjacent field, causing Evan to brake hard and slowing everything to a snail’s pace. Good God, but these holidaymakers were clueless! For a second he wished he were a traffic cop. He gripped the wheel, fuming with impatience, but there was no chance to overtake until he turned off at the roundabout and into the police station car park. He hurried into the building and was about to enter D.I. Watkins’s office when Glynis Davies’s head came around the adjacent door.

“No use looking in there. He’s not in,” she said.

“Where is he?”

“Gone to fetch the profiler. Chief Inspector Hughes decided he wanted to talk to the man in person rather than just read a report.”

“Lucky profiler,” Evan said. “And where is the great man himself?” He dropped his voice.

Glynis grinned. “Nowhere to be seen for the moment. And I’ve got a bone to pick with you.”

“What have I done?”

“Not kept him away long enough. You could have made that tour of the bunker last at least a couple of hours and given us a chance to get on with our work. As it was, he was back here before I’d even had a chance to get going. He stood breathing down the back of my neck as I searched the various databases. And when I was actually in the process of e-mailing the NCIS, he picked up the phone behind me and was calling them at the same time with exactly the same questions. I felt like an idiot!”

“Sorry,” Evan said. “The moment we saw that wall with the handcuffs gone, we came rushing back here.”

“And then you conveniently managed to disappear.” She frowned at him.

“I did have instructions to follow up on the music issue.”

“And you found something? You came down the hall like a man with a purpose.”

“I have come up with one lead that may be worthwhile,” Evan said. He glanced up and down the empty hallway.

“I was about to pop across the street to that Greek place for a coffee,” Glynis said. “Do you want to come with me?”

“Coffee? My stomach feels as if it’s lunchtime.”

“It is.” Glynis glanced at her watch. “Maybe they’ll make us a gyro to go. Quick, before the big guns return and catch us.”

They made for the front door and had crossed the street before Glynis asked, “So what did you find out?”

“You remember the girl at the bank and the Peeping Tom incident?”

Glynis nodded. “And you were suspicious of the young man who worked with her at the bank?”

“He was distinctly uncomfortable, all the time I was there.

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