Hide by J. A. Henderson

Author:J. A. Henderson [Henderson, J. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781645706014
Publisher: Black Hart
Published: 2019-08-31T22:00:00+00:00

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R.D. waited for a Disney Dormouse to pop from a teapot in some overlooked corner of this unhappy white room. Justin weathered the look of astonishment breaking over his friend’s face. Even seemed slightly amused.

R.D. raced through the possibilities. Justin was joking… No. Justin was lying… No.

Justin was a raving lunatic.

There was a thought.

And suddenly things became far more complex.

He had been invited out here, not just because there was something wrong with Clancy, but because there was also something wrong with her husband. This was certainly one for his memoirs! No Chinese carry-out after all. But Justin and Clancy still needed his help.

Well, well. R.D. scratched his head thoughtfully. OK, he’d rise to the occasion. Here was a chance to heal old wounds. An opportunity to show his worth. He’d stroll right into this emotional conflagration and emerge from the smoke with a grateful Moore over each shoulder.

He’d get his friends back.

A wily grin puckered his face. He played along.

“You… make people forget you?”

Justin headed for the French windows and yanked them open, hanging over the destroyed lawn and basking angrily in the boiling air. Then he whirled back to R.D., beads of sweat sailing from his forehead and landing on the panes.

“I know how it seems! Sure I do. Sounds like I aint playing with the full deck, don’t it?”

“It sounds like you’re completely round the bend, if you want the truth.” R.D. crossed his legs, calm and rational, in control of the situation. “Still, I’m curious. How exactly do you, eh… do this forgetting thing?”

“Remember Moore’s Cocktail? Shoot, sorry. What am I talking about? You named the damned thing. Well I never got to tell you what happened to it, after I left.”

“I heard the whole project shut down.” R.D. leaned forward, indicating for Justin to continue. “That’s all I know.”

“I wanted to get in touch about that, sure I did. But… eh… I was pretty mad at you. For stealing money from the Daler project. From my project.”

“I know you’re never going to believe me,” the psychologist began. “But I swear I didn’t do that.”

“It don’t matter. You weren’t the one messing with the test results. That’s the important part.” Justin stuck thin hands in his pockets. “Sides, I never explained what I found out about the drug.”

“That you were right, after all?” R.D. ventured hopefully. “That Daler screwed with your results? Wanted the Cocktail project abandoned at any cost.”

“Not at any cost.” Justin cast his mind back. “They wanted the project ended, sure. But they didn’t want a scandal. Fortunately for Daler, you handed them all the ammo they needed to get rid of me and keep my mouth shut.”

“Aw… Justin.”

“Look. Let’s suppose I was wrong about you.” Justin held up his hand, silencing R.D.’s budding protest. “What really concerned me were the errors cropping up in my research. I told you, a long time ago, the findings showed a lot of the animals we gave the drug to had begun dying.”

“If Daler messed with the results, that might not even have been be true.

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