NEVER CAME HOME an addictive crime thriller with a twist you won't see coming (Detective Inspector Siv Drummond Book 2) by Gretta Mulrooney

Author:Gretta Mulrooney [MULROONEY, GRETTA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joffe Books Crime thriller and mystery
Published: 2020-10-05T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Grant Haddon and Adam Dimas were in McDonalds. Grant sipped a coffee while he watched Adam demolish a Grand Big Mac with fries, washing it down with strawberry milkshake. He’d been contemplating becoming a vegan for some time, and seeing Adam chewing and slurping on the greasy grey flesh, he decided he would, from today. His dad would moan and call him a ‘plant muncher,’ but then Grant was planning to move out once he’d done a term at uni. He and his friend Jamie were going to join up and find somewhere. There were loads of student shares around the coast and he’d saved quite a bit in the past year. He’d be able to afford it. Dad wouldn’t like that either, he’d assumed that Grant would live at home while he did his degree, but that was a different bridge to cross. Dad was such a fusspot and so protective. Grant got that Dad obsessed about his welfare because it had been just the two of them for so long, and then he’d had the cancer diagnosis. But he needed to get out from under his father’s intense focus. Jamie joked about his dad, and said that cancer hadn’t killed Grant, but his father might manage to smother him with love.

Adam dug a fry into ketchup. He’d got Grant’s email address through someone at school and had messaged him, asking to meet because he wanted to talk about his mum. Despite his reluctance, it was hard to refuse. If their positions had been reversed, Grant would have wanted to meet. He’d always seen Adam as a bit of a loser and had been sorry for him at Drama club, because he’d struggled to forget his inhibitions. Grant also needed to talk about what had happened at Steiner’s. He couldn’t discuss it with his dad, who’d been irritable for days when he’d found out that Grant had been there that morning instead of going to London as planned.

He’d almost sounded as if it was Grant’s fault he’d found a body when he shouldn’t even have been at the premises. (‘For God’s sake, why can’t I rely on you to just do what you say you’re going to!’) Then his dad had maintained that it was best to put it down to experience and get on with things. ‘Keep your mind on the bigger picture,’ he’d urged. That’s what his dad always said when he was uncomfortable and wanted to avoid a subject. It was a meaningless phrase. He kept worrying about his dad. He couldn’t talk to him about the important thing that he so badly wanted to mention because if he did, it would make it seem as if he was questioning his dad and that wouldn’t go well. But it was there in his head all the time now, niggling at him.

Adam sniffed and wiped ketchup from his chin with the back of his hand. He seemed sweaty and weird, and his eyes kept flickering. Grant wished now that he hadn’t agreed to meet.

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