Inspector Lafarge 02 The Tortured Detective by Pirate Irwin

Author:Pirate Irwin [Irwin, Pirate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sharpe Books
Published: 2018-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

He returned to Limoges alone and in a sombre mood, for his farewell with Aimee had been a tortuous one for him, realizing that it was probably the last time they would see each other.

She had been the only one present at breakfast, no doubt Bernard and Lisette were exhausted after their late night sortie, and conversation had been awkward at best. The only positive thing was she made no remarks to suggest she knew he had got up in the middle of the night.

As he drove back to Limoges he mulled over whether there was any opportunity for him to get Aimee away from the farm before he alerted his colleagues about the cell operating out of there.

Aimee after all wasn't wholly implicated, she was to his mind guilty only for being the sister of a man who was.

However, Lafarge knew well enough that whole families were paying for acts that were perpetrated by siblings or their children and were perceived as crimes against the state. Thus unless he acted to help her she would not be spared if she was taken in with Bernard and Lisette, and with him gone he could only shudder at what perverse and debase acts would be performed on her.

Nevertheless reluctant as he was to sacrifice her, his own future good health depended on delivering, or at least making a semblance of doing so, de Chastelain to Paris. It was clear he could only achieve that untroubled if de Blaeckere and his men were out of the way, and he had the means to ensure that happened.

He raged against himself for having allowed himself to get so intimate with Aimee, for it had seriously complicated an already complex situation and he could only blame himself for that, quite apart from the feeling of guilt he would carry around with him from now on.

He had thought he could keep himself serenely above the moral conflicts, aside from being his usual judgmental self, but now he could see that not even those who wished to distance themselves from getting their hands dirty could do so.

His temper was hardly improved when he got to headquarters and found de Blaeckere had moved into Guillemot’s office, which pretty much confirmed the spy chief would not be returning.

“Ah hell isn’t to your liking anymore then de Blaeckere,” said Lafarge coldly.

De Blaeckere, who looked to have recovered all his former arrogance after his loss of control the day before, looked up at him and smiled thinly.

If Lafarge had been expecting at least a thank you for his actions during the bungled raid then de Blaeckere had left them behind in the phone call with Bousquet. It had probably been a ruse on the young man’s part anyway as he aimed his vitriol first at the weakened Guillemot knowing that Lafarge was only a temporary irritant.

Now with Guillemot out of the way he could assume control of all operations in the area.

“Local politics, don’t you just love them,” grinned Lafarge and carried on down the corridor towards the fresher air of his and Broglie’s office.

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