Shadow of Doubt by S L Beaumont

Author:S L Beaumont [Beaumont, S L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780473483708
Publisher: Paperback Writers Publishing
Published: 2019-07-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

January 31

I closed my suitcases and took a final turn about the flat. Everything that was really important to me, but not going to New York, had been packed in several boxes and collected by a storage company earlier in the day. The rest was just the debris of married life and could easily be replaced–kitchen stuff, IKEA furniture, books and linen.

My flight was at 5 pm, so I had a few hours to kill before the car was picking me up to take me to Heathrow.

I gathered my courage and decided it was time to go and see Colin, who had left the flat early muttering something about going to the warehouse.

I spent the morning going over what I was going to say to him. After all it’s not every day you leave your husband. Unfortunately, my conversation with Will the previous day had only served to have a number of my suspicions confirmed and I had decided when I woke this morning, that rather than just sneaking away, I needed to have a tough conversation with Colin, before leaving for New York tonight.

Walking to the tube, I typed a text to Will.

‘Thank you again for listening yesterday and for passing the info on to your mate at the Met.’

My fingers hovered over the send icon considering whether I should say anything about what happened back at his flat, but I guess that kind of spoke for itself. It was our goodbye in a way. I tapped send. He replied as I reached the underground station.

‘Anytime Jess. What time does your flight leave?’

‘5pm. I’m on my way to confront Colin with some of my questions now, and to tell him that I’m leaving him.’

As the DLR train emerged from underground a little while later, my mobile chimed with notification of no less than ten missed calls from Will. I frowned as he rang again.

“Jess, I don’t think it’s a good idea to talk to him yet. Think it over for a few days, wait to see what my mate has to say and call him from New York if you have to.” Will sounded out of breath.

“What? You’ve changed your tune.” I was baffled by the sudden turnaround.

“I just don’t think it’s wise. You need to be careful. He could turn nasty.”

“It’ll be fine. There’ll be other people around. Anyway, I’m almost there. I’ll let you know how it goes.”

I heard him swear as I disconnected the call and pocketed my phone. I needed to do this and not be dissuaded by him.

I alighted at Devon Road Station and hailed a passing cab to take me down from the station to Limehouse Cut.

The large roller doors on the L-FLI depot were all closed, which surprised me. There was no answer on the intercom, so I entered the building through the small side door using the passcode that I’d seen Kathleen entering a couple of days earlier. The warehouse was silent and gloomy. I walked down the first row of stacked boxes towards the stairs to the offices on the mezzanine level.

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