The Genesis Inquiry by Olly Jarvis

Author:Olly Jarvis [Jarvis, Olly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hobeck Books
Published: 2021-10-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifty

A light drizzle had all but cleared the streets. A few people in raincoats, their collars pulled up around their necks, scurried along under the streetlamps to their destinations. Ella marched, head down, across town to De Jure, oblivious to the weather.

‘I need to make sure I’m not going mad,’ she said when Broady asked what they were going to do.

Broady muttered his usual complaint about her not being a team player as Ella strode on down the shadowy streets.

‘Evening,’ she called out to Bartlett as they passed his office. ‘Just checking something in Matthew’s room.’

Bartlett looked up from his copy of The Sun and doffed his cap. ‘Brought the whole family?’ he said in a dry voice, as the others appeared at the window.

Ella looked around and laughed, then realised they were one short. ‘Where’s Lizzie?’

‘Gone to see Greg,’ Jay replied.

Ella remembered her puffy eyes. ‘Lover’s tiff?’

‘Something like that,’ Jay replied, without looking at her. ‘I’m sure she won’t be long.’

She wondered why he’d felt the need to reassure her, but then dismissed it. ‘Mr Bartlett, is Master Desmond still here?’

‘Course he is,’ he replied, closing his paper.

Ella sensed he didn’t have much affection for the man. ‘Can you do me a favour and show Detective Broady and Jay, my assistant, to Matthew’s rooms? I’ll catch you up when I’ve seen the Master.’

‘Right you are,’ he replied, pulling himself up off his chair and wheezing into action.

Ella handed Broady the keys. ‘Two silver at the top and brown at the bottom.’

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