The Half Truth by Sue Fortin

Author:Sue Fortin [Fortin, Sue]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007556595
Google: Xn8yBgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00SCHSQ04
Goodreads: 25171172
Publisher: HarperImpulse
Published: 2015-03-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Mr Cooper hadn’t been overly alarmed, but he had agreed to be more vigilant with locking his back door.

‘I’m an old dog,’ he said. ‘It’s hard to teach me new tricks, but I’ll do my best to remember.’

Tina knew it was the best compromise she was likely to get from him.

‘So, what happens now?’ asked Tina as they went back into her house.

‘We’re going through local CCTV to see if we can see who was hanging around the café the other night.’

‘I didn’t realise there was CCTV,’ said Tina. She didn’t meet John’s look, she knew the look of guilt would speak louder than any words.

‘Is there anything you want to tell me about the other night?’ said John, his voice was gentle. ‘Anything you may have remembered?’

Tina stared at the coffee cups she had taken from the cupboard. Her back was to John.

‘Tell me a bit more about the Moorgate robbery and what happened there. Who was involved?’ She needed to know for certain it was only Pavel.

‘What’s this, some sort of trade-off?’ His tone was tetchy.

‘I need to be clear who was involved and to what extent.’

‘So you can protect people?’ He was angry. ‘You’re not judge and jury, you don’t decide who gets caught, who gets punished. If you know something and you’re not telling me, then that’s withholding information. A serious offence.’

She spun round to look at him. ‘If that’s what you think, then arrest me.’ She knew as well as he did, he couldn’t prove loss of memory.

‘Look, Tina. Let’s cut the bullshit,’ said John. ‘Someone came to your rescue the other night. Who would want to protect you? Who doesn’t want the local police to know they were there?’ He paused and looked out of the window as if in some sort of internal fight. ‘Pavel. He’s over here, he wants to spoils of the Moorgate job and you, whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, are the link.’

She thought he was going to say something else. Did he know about Sasha, if indeed it had been Sasha she had seen? She was even less convinced it was him now. Wishful thinking on her part. Hearing the Russian voices and getting the bump on her head had caused her imagination to go into overdrive. Adrenalin and fear fuelled all those subliminal connections, surging at the same time, making her see things she wanted to. Reality suspended. No, she didn’t really believe it was Sasha.

Tina could see the anger and frustration in John’s face, the gold flecks in his hazel eyes burned, reflecting the flames of guilt which flickered and glowed from deep within him. There was something he wasn’t telling her. She needed to know one thing before she could tell him the truth.

‘Was Sasha involved in the death of your partner? Was he involved in any of it? I need to know.’

He looked her straight in the eye when he answered. He didn’t blink. He didn’t shift his gaze for one second.

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