Shooting Pains (The Dr. Cathy Moreland Mysteries) by Mairi Chong

Author:Mairi Chong [Chong, Mairi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloodhound Books
Published: 2022-04-04T23:00:00+00:00

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Gregory had had a hard-enough day as it was. The final nail in the coffin was returning home to a cold, empty house with no dinner on the bloody table. He opened the fridge, assuming that Fiona might have left a plate of something, but it seemed not. He glanced around the kitchen. The girl hadn’t been back at all that day by the looks of things. Stuck consoling her friend, no doubt. God alone knew what women found to say to one another. Hours on end they could spend talking. He’d seen it with Fiona before. After forty-five minutes on the phone to her damn sister, he’d ask and she’d shrug.

‘What?’ he’d say. ‘You’re costing us a fortune in bills and you don’t even know what it was you were talking about?’

That was so like Fiona though. She’d probably enjoyed the comforting arms of that damn gamekeeper, Kenneth, also. Gregory had no doubt that he would have been only too keen to offer his taxiing services that morning if it meant spending a few extra minutes with Fiona. Gregory wondered if the man really admired her, or if it was as much to irritate him as anything.

Gregory climbed the stairs still thinking of his wife. He’d have a shower and then phone her. He supposed she would probably need picking up from Rosemary’s house. He could do that and go in for a chip supper on the way home.

He froze as he was removing his shirt, his arm halfway out of the sleeve. What if Rosemary decided, after all, to return with Fiona? Oh God, how awful it would be. How awkward and embarrassing. How would he cope tiptoeing around the weeping woman? Of course, there was the question of who she would blame also. Gregory knew only too well that it would be him. Not just Rosemary, but bloody Adam Foster and Mr Dewhurst already thought he had been involved. When the police came knocking, he imagined that they would think the same. The unfairness of it all. His fist clenched involuntarily. He was done with self-pity, but instead, he found that deep within, it had been replaced by a wave of seething anger.

He thought back to his conversation with Adam that morning and the odious man’s smug theory that Gregory had deliberately injured his guest. The very thought! He had enough on his plate without plotting elaborate ways to kill people, especially when they mattered so little to him as David Holden. What motive might he, Gregory, have had for bumping the idiot off? Gregory knew that Adam hadn’t believed him when he denied it. Not that Adam could prove a thing. It was strange thinking back to that morning. It seemed a lifetime ago now. Adam and he had done a kind of dance, with first one believing that they had the upper hand, and then the other. Both men despised one another, that was clear, but both knew that to stay safe they must protect the other.

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