The Enemies We Destroy: A Yorkshire Murder Mystery (DI Daniel Ward Crime Thrillers Book 7) by Meg Jolly

Author:Meg Jolly [Jolly, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eldarkin Publishing
Published: 2023-01-30T13:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Seven

‘I need you to think very carefully. Who had your car, Gemma?’ Holly repeated more forcefully when Gemma didn’t answer except to groan into her hands.

‘It had a warning light on the dashboard—I didn’t know why—so I borrowed my boyfriend’s car for work that night. I tried to get out early that morning to get it back to him, so he didn’t have to get a taxi back to work himself. He stayed the night here. He was so pissed off, I thought it might help for him to have some space...’ She rocked back and forth.

‘Who, Gemma?’ Holly itched with impatience, leaning forward like she could will the woman to answer her question. She wasn’t making any sense, damn it.

‘My boyfriend, Caleb.’

Holly felt as though she’d been hit in the face with a bucket of ice water. ‘Caleb Parsons?’

‘Yes. Why? What’s happening?’

Holly could have groaned herself. ‘Caleb had access to your car that night? Do you know if he used it?’

‘No. I mean, why would he? It had the warning light for the engine; it still did. I only got it fixed yesterday.’

‘But it was still driveable?’ Depending on the warning light, it may have been a very minor fault—one that allowed Caleb Parsons to come and go as he pleased without anything being traced back to him.

‘Well yeah, I suppose.’

‘So, he could have taken it.’

‘Yeah.’ Her gaze dropped to the counter beside her, where a set of house keys lay next to a car key for the vehicle outside.

‘I don’t suppose you’d know the mileage of your car on Sunday and Monday?’ That was a long trip—would she notice her mileage had gone up?

She shook her head. Holly grimaced. It was a long shot.

‘Petrol?’

Gemma stilled. ‘It had more in, actually. I thought I was going crazy. I had a quarter of a tank. I remember thinking I’d have to fill up before this weekend. But when I looked again on Tuesday, there was half a tank. But...’

‘Maybe he filled it up on the trip.’ There was no way a quarter of a tank could make it to Haworth and back.

‘Yeah...’

Holly scribbled all of this down furiously, her hand aching from trying to write so fast. ‘Did you have any contact with him that evening?’

‘No, not since I went to work. I forgot my phone and everything. Left it here.’ Gemma groaned.

‘What is it?’

‘I’m confused. Look, Caleb already went to West Yorkshire on Sunday, in his own car. We both went. We go every few weeks for Sunday dinner. I don’t normally come along, but this week, well, it was his mum’s birthday last week, so I figured I’d better show my face even though I couldn’t be arsed. Not with a night shift and all that driving!’

‘Did anything happen whilst you were there? Was there any reason that he would have needed to return?’ So urgently. At antisocial hours.

‘Nothing out of the ordinary, not really. I mean, it wasn’t great. There was a bit of an atmosphere. His sister split up with her fella again.

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