Married Lies (Reissue) by Chris Collett
Author:Chris Collett [Collett, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joffe Books Mystery, Crime Thriller, Suspense Fiction
Published: 2018-05-12T22:00:00+00:00
Chapter Twelve
On his way home Mariner considered picking up a DVD, but decided to consult Kat first on what she might like to watch. They could get a takeaway to go with it. But Kat had other plans. He arrived back to find her all dressed up and hunting around for her bag.
‘You’re going out again,’ Mariner said, stating the obvious. ‘With Giles?’
‘Yes, we go to Broad Street.’ It was becoming a habit.
‘Is he picking you up?’ Mariner asked, hopefully.
‘No, I get the bus.’
‘I can take you,’ Mariner said, impulsively. ‘If you can wait while I get changed. I’m meeting someone too.’
Kat smiled. ‘A woman?’
‘It’s work,’ Mariner said, vaguely, cutting that one off at the pass. Anything else and he’d be committed to the full post-mortem the following day. ‘Where are you meeting Giles?’
‘Mambo’s — is a bar on Broad Street.’
She waited, and a little later Mariner joined the line of taxis flooding into the city centre, their passengers heading in for Saturday night entertainment. Dropping Kat off by the Hyatt Hotel, Mariner turned into Gas Street and parked in the first multi-storey he came to. Bearing in mind Millie’s remarks the previous night about blending in, he’d worn a short-sleeved shirt, which he pulled outside the waistband of his jeans. It took ten years off him, but getting out of the car he shivered as the easterly wind cut right through the thin cotton. He made his way back to Broad Street. He’d never heard of Mambo’s and had to ask directions. Once he’d located the bar, he waited until a large and noisy group of young men was going in, and hooked onto the back of them, hoping that if Kat was still there, he would see her before she saw him.
The place was rammed, and the low lighting both hindered and helped his cause, but Mariner was able to secure a spot at the end of the bar with his back to the wall that gave him a wide view through the heaving mass of bodies. Finally he saw Kat, and in the nick of time too, as she was on her way out, being shepherded though the crowds by Giles, his guiding hand at her back. Mariner followed them as best he could, weaving a path through the closely packed bodies. Out on Broad Street the crowds thinned a little, though gangs of youths and young women blocked the pavement, some of them already the worse for drink. Mariner was grateful that Giles was tall and he was able to follow the pale mop of hair back in towards Brindley Place. Then suddenly Giles and Kat ducked into a doorway and Mariner followed, descending a dark stairway in their wake and into his idea of hell.
The club was dark, but for a web of laser beams above the dance floor and a cinema-sized flat screen on one wall showing random, grainy images cut from old news footage of the sixties; flower power and mushroom clouds, JFK on a grip and grin.
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