Running in Circles: An international mystery with a heart-stopping twist (Lucy Lewis Thriller Book 1) by Claire Gray

Author:Claire Gray [Gray, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sapere Books
Published: 2018-12-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

‘Let’s stop here,’ Steve says.

The track has narrowed and the car is beginning to struggle against the mud and thick plants. I switch the engine off. Silence, almost. A mosquito moves about inside with us, humming. Many more insects have perished on the windscreen. Something in the engine is ticking.

‘Maybe I should pull over a bit,’ I say. ‘In case someone wants to get past.’

‘You think anyone else will be coming out here?’

‘Well, Kadesadayurat,’ I say.

‘Their car looked nearly as beat-up as ours,’ Steve says. ‘I doubt they’d get it much further than this.’

‘Still, I’d feel better if we weren’t in the way.’

‘Down there,’ Steve says, pointing to a little dip at the side of the road, partially hidden by vines hanging from the trees. ‘It’ll be out of the way and it’s sort of subtle. The police might not even notice it. Not that it matters. We’re doing nothing wrong being out here.’

‘I know.’ I nod, but somehow I feel like we are.

With a lot of groaning from the engine, and with mud spitting up all around us, I manage to manoeuvre the car off the road. We climb out and sink ankle deep in sludge.

‘Oh, we’re not prepared for this,’ Steve says as flies descend around us.

‘We’ll be fine. This is a few miles further on from where I cycled to with Lena. From here it should be possible to walk to the three temples I have in mind. They’re the temples nearest to the river.’

‘We should wait here though,’ Steve says, planting a hand firmly on the roof of the car. ‘Don’t you think we should wait for the police to arrive and then follow them?’

‘It doesn’t hurt to look,’ I say. I’d thought, now that he was out here, Steve would want to keep on going.

‘But it might hurt. That’s exactly my concern.’

So, we get back inside the car and sit silently together, arms folded, staring out at water oozing down the trunks of the trees and dripping onto rocks below. Drops are hitting the roof of our car too, an irregular beat. We wait and wait. The police car does not appear.

Steve puts the radio on and dials through the different stations until he finally manages to catch something, although it is muffled and cuts in and out. A female voice is speaking in Thai. I can tell it’s the news by her sombre tone.

‘Is she talking about us? The island?’ I ask.

‘Yeah,’ Steve says, frowning as he concentrates. ‘She just mentioned the police in Melbourne, Australia. Something to do with members of a group. Closing in on someone. It’s so hard to hear.’

He twists the dial, attempting to make it clearer, but then we lose the voice completely and there is nothing but the hiss of empty airwaves.

‘I think maybe things are starting to happen,’ I say. ‘We’re all making progress, right?’

‘Let’s just go home,’ Steve says. ‘We’ve obviously got this wrong.’

‘You serious?’ I say.

‘We shouldn’t explore alone, Lucy. It’s stupid and it’s dangerous.

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