The Grand Tour by Olivia Wearne

Author:Olivia Wearne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQ Fiction
Published: 2020-10-19T00:00:00+00:00

The following morning, Bernard glumly read over his press as he spooned up his muesli. The other Victorian papers had printed reruns of the Regional Times article, while the local printed a follow-up, which was merely a rewording of the original.

He was hovering over a sinkful of dishes when someone knocked brazenly at his door. He leant back and peered down the length of the hallway, as though he might somehow see through to the door’s other side. The knock was repeated.

‘Bernard? Are you there?’

He gazed at the blue-and-white-striped mugs hanging from the kitchen dresser. A rapping on the French doors sent him jumping through his skin.

Jessica Madden stood on the patio peering in at him. ‘Can I come in?’

He shook his head.

‘Come on, Bernard, I just want to clarify a few things. I’ll find out the truth eventually.’

‘You mean you’ll make it up.’

‘Don’t be such a cynic. You were a journalist once, remember?’

‘I was never a journalist.’

‘You hosted the news.’

‘That makes me a newsreader, don’t lump me in with you cretins—I was just a pretty face.’

She laughed and jotted something down on her pad. ‘Seriously, Bernard, I just want to know what you were doing that day, where you were going, why you crashed?’

He dried his hands on a tea towel. ‘And I want you to know it’s none of your business.’ He walked out of the kitchen and into the relative safety of the bathroom to massage his bruises.

Fifteen minutes later he abandoned the loo’s asylum, happy to find the reporter had left her post at the French doors. His relief was short-lived; peering through his front window he caught her strolling around his yard, deep in conversation with the phone at her ear. He watched her pause and peek inside his letterbox with her free hand.

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