Greed is a Powerful Motive by Russell Wate

Author:Russell Wate [Wate, Russell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cranthorpe Millner Publishers
Published: 2021-10-26T00:00:00+00:00

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Sandy was able to rearrange his flights quite easily and after packing up his room, checked out and took a taxi to the airport. He wasn’t going to risk contacting Solomon to organise a lift from the police. As he made his way into the airport terminal and then through check in, he was feeling very despondent, and he thought to himself that this was the last time he would see Vadodara. He had hoped earlier in the week to have some free time on either today or Friday to enjoy some sightseeing and maybe get to see inside places like the Laxmi Vilas Palace. Obviously, this was not to be.

The flights taking Sandy back to England worked out very smoothly and on arrival at Heathrow, Sandy made a decision to take the underground train and head back to the flat for the weekend. He thought he would avoid Ely, trying to convince himself it was to give his mum and dad space, which was not really correct, as in reality it was probably to avoid having to talk to his Grandad Tom and maybe letting slip what had happened in India. He didn’t want his grandad to be disappointed in him.

Sandy busied himself in the flat on Saturday morning, even going for a run first thing. He felt a little bit guilty that he had told his rugby captain that he was unavailable for this weekend, but due to unforeseen circumstances he obviously was now available. In the afternoon, he took himself off to the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square to see an exhibition by an Italian painter from the sixteenth century, Titian. The exhibition was the reuniting of six paintings he had painted for King Philip of Spain and was titled ‘Love, Desire, Death’. Sandy thoroughly enjoyed the exhibition, which meant he was able to forget about his experience in India for a few hours.

All weekend, Sandy was waiting with dreaded anticipation to receive an email or text from Superintendent Jane Watson as a summons for him to be in her office first thing Monday morning. Sandy was that paranoid about what he thought the outcome of their meeting was likely to be that on the Sunday morning, he started to look at what possible vacancies there might be for him to apply for, searching the vacancies on the Metropolitan Police internal job site pages. One thing, though, that he couldn’t help but do was, at times, smile to himself – what an incredible time Hasan and he had had on their car chase/journey back to Vadodara. Gosh, it had been great fun, and even the sore knee and elbow were pretty much okay now.

Monday morning came and still no contact from Jane. So, Sandy decided to walk past her office slowly as soon as he got into work. As he did so, Jane Watson looked up from her computer and said, ‘Great work recovering the laptop and getting someone charged with stealing it. I suppose we are no closer to finding out why Mr Smythe died, though, are we?’

Sandy said, ‘Thanks.

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