Moving Target (A DCI Thatcher Yorkshire Crimes Book 6) by Oliver Davies

Author:Oliver Davies [Davies, Oliver]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

Stephen and I had driven to the hospital in separate cars, so we parted ways in the car park. Still, I wanted to talk to him about what had happened in the hospital, and when I was at Phil’s house, so I put my phone on speaker and called him. I pulled out of the car park once he picked up, and we talked idly as we drove back to Hewford.

“I’m sorry about your dad. Y’know, finding out about the magazines,” Stephen said.

I made a noise of acknowledgement in my throat. “Thanks. I mean, I should’ve expected it, really.”

“Seeing it confirmed is different.”

“I guess it is. I can picture him there at those fights, though. It’s not hard to imagine him fitting in. That was his kind of world.”

Stephen was silent for a pause, and there was just the sound of the car’s engine, the road’s rough tarmac under the wheels and the intermittent traffic outside.

“Don’t answer if you don’t want to, okay, but where was your mum in all this?”

The mention of my mum made me press my lips together, my hands tightening around the wheel. It was stupid, really, to still care about it now, decades after it had happened. Loads of kids came from broken homes and surely weren’t still hung up about it when they were past thirty. Still, thinking of her made my stomach twist, and I blew out a breath.

“She left when I was a kid. I didn’t understand at the time ‘cus no one explained it to me plainly, but I realised later that she must have got fed-up with dad’s ‘business’ deals. Maybe she expected him to go straight at some point, but he never did.”

“I understand,” Stephen said after a pause.

I bit back a sharp reply about how he couldn’t understand at all and forced my hands to relax. Even just talking about it made me edgy, but I told myself firmly that I wasn’t going to verbally lash out at him again.

He changed the topic back to what Snell and Ross had been telling us, and I gladly ran with it.

“We don’t even know where they’re keeping the dogs now,” I lamented.

The two LACS members had told us that the dogs had been moved shortly after Snell had been caught out, and LACS had been too focused on trying to get Snell out and keep him safe to be able to do a raid on the dog barn too.

“We’ll find them again,” Stephen said confidently.

“Aye, but how many of them will die in the meantime? Or be abused?”

“We can only do our best, Mitch. You’re already going above and beyond by taking this case on at all. It’s hardly a normal job for a DCI, is it? And you’ve seen how dangerous it is.”

“I’m giving it a shot, yeah, but a fat lot of good it’ll do if we can’t find some actual evidence and leads to follow up soon, though.” I sighed.

Stephen paused, and I knew him well enough to know that he had a thought or idea but was hesitating to voice it for whatever reason.

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