Midnight Sun by Nesbø Jo

Author:Nesbø, Jo [Nesbø, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Crime, thriller, Mystery, Suspense
ISBN: 9781448192472
Amazon: 1448192471
Goodreads: 18761910
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Published: 2015-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

JOHNNY HAD GONE.

‘He caught the bus back south today,’ Lea said.

She had sent Knut out of the cabin to get wood and water. She wanted coffee. And an explanation as to why she had received a visit from a southerner who wanted to know where I was.

I shrugged. ‘There are lots of southerners. So what did he want?’

‘He said he’d really like to talk to you. About business.’

‘Oh, right,’ I said. ‘Was it Johnny? Looks like a wading bird?’

She didn’t answer, just sat there on the other side of the table and tried to catch my eye.

‘He’d found out that you were staying in the hunting cabin, and got someone to show him the way. But you weren’t here, and then when someone else told him you’d been at mine after the funeral, I suppose he thought I might know something.’

‘And what did you say?’

I let her catch my eye. Let her study my expression. I had plenty to hide, yet also nothing.

She sighed: ‘I said you’d gone back south.’

‘Why did you say that?’

‘Because I’m not stupid. I don’t know what sort of trouble you’re in, and I don’t want to know, but I don’t want to be responsible for things getting even worse.’

‘Even worse?’

She shook her head. That could mean that she’d expressed herself badly, that I had misunderstood, or that she didn’t want to talk about it. She glanced out through one of the window slits. We could hear Knut chopping wood energetically outside.

‘According to him, your name is Jon, not Ulf.’

‘Did you ever believe it was Ulf?’

‘No.’

‘But you still sent him off in the wrong direction. You lied. What does your book say about that?’

She nodded in the direction of the chopping. ‘He says we need to look after you. The book has something to say about that as well.’

We sat in silence for a while. Me with my hands on the table, she with hers in her lap.

‘Thanks for taking care of Knut after the funeral.’

‘Don’t mention it. How is he taking it?’

‘Well, really.’

‘And you?’

She shrugged her shoulders. ‘Women always find a way of coping.’

The chopping had stopped. He’d soon be back. She looked at me again. Her eyes had taken on a colour I’d never seen before, and the look in them had a corrosive intensity. ‘I’ve changed my mind. I want to know what you’re running from.’

‘Your original decision was probably more sensible.’

‘Tell me.’

‘What for?’

‘Because I believe you’re a good person. And good people’s sins can always be forgiven.’

‘What if you’re wrong, what if I’m not a good person? Does that mean I’d end up burning in that hell of yours?’ It came out more bitterly than I intended.

‘I’m not wrong, Ulf, because I can see you. I can see you.’

I took a deep breath. I still didn’t know if the words were going to come out of my mouth. I was inside her eyes, blue, blue as the sea below you when you’re ten years old and standing on a rock and your whole being wants to jump, apart from your legs, which won’t move.

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