In the Cage Where Your Saviours Hide by Malcolm Mackay

Author:Malcolm Mackay [Mackay, Malcolm]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786697080
Publisher: Head of Zeus

24

‘THIS ISN’T GOING to be worth our valuable time.’

Darian was sitting in the passenger seat of Sholto’s Fiat. He said, ‘You don’t think?’

‘Nah, no chance.’

Sholto enjoyed speaking as a master to his apprentice, letting Darian know he’d done this all before. It was an act of basic kindness to let him ramble on about it, even though Darian already knew why the boss was right.

Darian asked, ‘Why not? He’s Uisdean’s friend, he was with him on the night. If anyone saw something it’s bound to be the friend.’

‘Well, first of all, that beating the boy took, whatever it was for, it was a setup. They knew he was in the club and they tiptoed up behind him when he came out. The friend didn’t go with him down the alley, so he wouldn’t have seen the attacker because the attacker would have made sure he didn’t. Place as busy as that and no one saw him? This person knows how to play the game. Second of all, Uisdean doesn’t want us to know what really happened, so there’s a good chance this reliable pal he’s willing to name will have his lips sewn shut as well. They’ll look out for each other.’

‘So why bother at all?’

‘Passes the time, and Kotkell’s paying by the hour.’

It wasn’t just their own time they were passing, it was Darian’s sister Cat’s as well. Leandro Oriol lived in the halls of residence at the university in the south end of Cnocaid, in the same large building she stayed in. They were sticklers for security, so Darian and Sholto needed someone with a pass to get them in. He had called Cat and asked if she could help. She had said yes, but only if she got to sit in on the interview, because seeing them at work promised to be entertaining and maybe even educational.

She was waiting for them at the main doors. The building was old, finished in 1762, and came with a high, arched entrance and doors thick enough to make an invading army pause for thought.

Darian smiled when he saw her, walked over and gave his sister a hug. ‘Good to see you, Cat.’

She was always the little sister to him and Sorley, with her thick, red hair, wide smile, pale, freckled skin and slight frame they thought she needed all the protection they could give. That was complete nonsense, of course, and especially so by the time they arrived at the door of the university halls. She was twenty, already planning to be a journalist, and knew her way around the worries of the world without the need of a guiding hand.

Sholto smiled, shook her hand firmly and said, ‘Catriona, it’s lovely to see you. Goodness me, you have your mother’s look if ever I saw it.’

A lot of people who had known their mother said the same, and Cat never quite knew how to react to reminders of her. Death chips a small corner from you, leaves you a different shape than you were before, a less complete person.

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