Lethbridge-Stewart: Bloodlines - The Shadowman by Sharon Bidwell

Author:Sharon Bidwell [Bidwell, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912535569
Google: 9UIQyAEACAAJ
Goodreads: 50280661
Publisher: Candy Jar Books
Published: 2019-11-14T00:00:00+00:00

The day couldn’t end fast enough. Paul rubbed at his forehead, still suffering the dregs of a headache brought on by too many stiff drinks. Enough, anyway, to make him late. With luck, Cooper hadn’t noticed or didn’t care. Paul failed to feel any guilt. Sure, he’d downed a few sips in the car while out by the park, but that was all. After seeing the menacing shadow, and making it back to his vehicle, no one could blame him for needing something to steady his nerves, but he’d resisted while driving. Hard to say why he kept to the road. The flight reflex refused to leave him in peace, so he’d kept going, following a random route for an hour back to his lodgings at the institute. Once inside, he stood for a while outside Cooper’s door, and considered knocking. But even if not in his room, the man might have returned to the lab. No way was Paul going out again, not even to another building on the grounds. He wanted nothing more than to visit his bed.

Questions had continued to plague him. The time Paul had spent driving certainly allowed enough time for Cooper to make it back before him. Trouble was, when Paul looked that morning, the logbook specified he’d signed in minutes after Paul, Anne and Madeleine left (talk about a narrow escape), and, after that, he never signed out. So, therefore, he had worked all night.

Which meant Paul shouldn’t have seen Cooper in the park. Unless he snuck out somehow. A window? Possible, but the ones in the second lab were small and situated high up in the wall. Cooper might have slipped out from another room, but he’d need access, and the large windows were wired to alarms. The parking was distant enough, though, for the guard not to notice Cooper drive away.

Maybe some other fool streaked, but Paul struggled to fight his certainty.

The car. The license plate. Cooper’s face. Paul wondered if he had hallucinated it, his dislike of the man going so deep as to play tricks on his mind. Maybe he was the mad one, and he’d dragged Madeleine into the mess for nothing. The sooner he got away from Cooper the better, but there remained one layer of crystals to go through. Until he did so, he couldn’t give the list to Madeleine to check against the original manifesto.

The cataloguing proved to be more a case of separating and re-packing for distribution. Cooper demoted him to nothing more than a packing and stock boy.

There had to be more to life. Maybe he should speak to Madeleine about all this, but there he faced other problems. She already believed he might be guilty of professional jealousy. If anything he said led her to believe he wanted a relationship with her to further his career, she’d never forgive him. If she were truly to run the institute, she’d need to reassign him or fire him. Must do, and perhaps that was preferable.

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