Shadow Kissing by Tanith Lee

Author:Tanith Lee [Lee, Tanith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The taxi was traveling easily, the night's heavier traffic finished, when Connor's mobile phone sounded.

He took the slender wafer from his jacket, scowling at it.

"I turned this off for the movie." He didn't attempt to answer the call.

"Wait, I loaned it to Lewis afterwards. He left it on—" The twanging call, which had stopped, began again. "Vivien, sorry. I'd better see what this is."

Vivien sat mutely, lost in him.

How could anything as ordinary as a phone call matter?

"Hi, Lewis. What the hell's up? No. No, she isn't. You'd better ask her. Okay." A long gap. "Right. Yes, you're right, I'm the one with the keys. Fine. I'll let you know—Not tonight, then." Connor broke the connection. "Vivien, we need to make a detour."

"What is it?" she asked, as Connor leaned back from redirecting the irked taxi driver, who now spun the cab squealingly around on the empty road. "May I know?"

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"I think you'd better know. Lewis had some business of his own after dinner, it seems. En route he drove past Adelaide's flat."

Vivien sat bolt upright. "What is it?"

"There are lights on, apparently."

"Oh no."

"You didn't leave any lamps switched on, did you?"

"No. No, I'm sure I didn't—"

"He asked if you were living there, because he said he had the impression, from a couple of things you said tonight, that you were back in Camden. Look, Vivien, it's probably nothing. Maybe there's some automatic master switch she forgot to tell you about."

"I'm sure there isn't. Addie's—She'd never bother to install anything like that. And I'd have seen it happen when I was there."

"Look. I'm going to stop off for the keys at the place I rent when I'm in London. It's a bare, uncomfortable hole, which is why I haven't asked you back there—good enough for working and sleeping, and that's all. But for now I suggest I drop you off there. While I deal with this."

"You think someone has broken into Addie's flat."

"No, I just think we need to be sure."

"If they have, it's my fault. I should have stayed—that was the whole idea. Oh God, I didn't even get round to calling her. I have to come with you."

Connor looked at her assessingly. She thought he would say no, and she would have to argue.

Instead, after a moment, he nodded. "All right."

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