Hayefield Manor by Jody Klaire

Author:Jody Klaire [Klaire, Jody]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing
Published: 2020-06-15T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 35

YOU EVER WONDER how some people get published?

I’d read some drivel but wow could Bunion suck at a person’s resolve until drinking seemed like the only medication. Before you ask, I didn’t medicate myself. I’d been drunk three times since my birthday and that was three times too many. Even the thought of stout made my stomach roll.

We’d sent Bob with Jake on a tour of the grounds, Edwina had taken to medicating herself but with tea and Fiona still looked drunk as we hunched around the dining room table with text-to-speech running roughshod over the English language.

Lady Sophie took advantage of her grandfather’s disreputable connections and obtained a false passport where she travelled all around the globe, carrying out crimes on their behalf.

I looked to Edwina who shrugged. “I have no idea if he had disreputable connections. I know that he had a great deal of power and the estate was at its richest under him.”

“Do you remember any of his connections?” I wasn’t sure when Sophie’s grandfather had died so Edwina could have been a child for all I knew.

“Yes, his accountant was Walter . . . what was his name?” She tapped her lip and clicked her fingers to herself then tutted. “It’ll come to me.”

Fiona patted her on the hand. “I remember Walter. I think they just called him Walter though, but he was the only one who looked mildly dodgy, the rest were all aristocrats like the Hayes.”

Edwina nodded. “I concur. I think Walter went to Eton with him.”

“So is Bunion right? Could Sophie’s grandfather have been involved in anything like that?” It would have taken some organising even if it had been twenty two years ago . . . then again, I never did immigration either. Maybe it didn’t take much organising.

“I can’t imagine so,” Edwina said and shook her head. “He would have been brought to task. And, that being said, Sophie’s grandfather had died six months before she disappeared.”

Hmm. That counted Bunion’s suspicions on that out . . . maybe.

Deeply involved in criminal ways, Sophie enjoyed the taste of freedom and an illicit relationship with a highly infamous criminal. The Australian police were then called to a crime scene where three bodies had been cut down by a sabre much like the weapon Sophie used to kill Eugenie.

“Well, we know he was closer to the truth than we’d like there.” I met Fiona’s worried gaze. “But I thought there’d been four victims?”

“Keep going,” she mumbled and nursed a coffee.

When on her way to receive medical care, she killed the police officer escorting her and fled back to her criminal lover who shielded her from the ensuing police hunt.

“That would have been newsworthy, surely.” I shook my head. “There would have been some physical description of her or photo or camera shot.”

Fiona nodded. “That’s what I said.”

“Yes, we only knew there was someone who might match Sophie’s description.” Edwina slammed her cup down. “It’s a preposterous report.”

“Then again, the guy thought Eugenie was in the flower bed.

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