The Naked Room by Hockley Diana

Author:Hockley, Diana [Hockley, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780977587070
Published: 2011-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 25

On The Mountain

Eloise

Wednesday: 12.15am.

I pushed the car through the traffic as fast as I dared, slipping through amber lights, dodging jay-walking pedestrians and zipping recklessly past delivery vans. Three cars ahead, the small nondescript, silver something-or-other ploughed on.

I enjoyed having coffee with the always professional Senior Sergeant. Apart from when she was asking questions about Georgie and a possible lover, she was friendly and chatty. It was time out from fear, sort of. Under other circumstances we could have been friends, but she is a policewoman. She’s so good at making people want to spill their innermost secrets that I almost blurted out the truth about Ally’s abduction. But she would take charge. It’s her job and Ally’s already in terrible danger.

Susan Prescott’s mouth dropped open as I bolted from the café. I was sure I had seen Georgie’s lover drive past going toward the city. I had forgotten to mention the man’s square, bullish head. His image was fresh in my mind because I’d just been talking about him, and of course I saw him from only a few feet away the night he visited Georgie, but I would stake my life on it being him.

We crossed the William Jolly Bridge and set course for the northern suburbs. Mine was the third car back, but the cars in front of me peeled off at the next lights, so the small Mazda sedan was right in front of me. I could just see the odd shape of the driver’s head and the top half of his female passenger’s. She kept turning toward him; occasionally he would turn to look at her. Had he ever seen me with Georgie on the island? I know there were photos of us together in her house, so he might recognise me. I was determined not to let that creature get away without discovering his lair. Whether or not he was somehow connected to Georgie’s death, I had to know what he was doing in Brisbane. And so help me God I would somehow have him killed, if he was the one who had taken Ally. James would find a way.

I reached over to the back seat and grabbed my new sun hat, clapped it on my head, fumbled in my handbag for my sunglasses, then tipped the car’s sun visor down hoping it would hide me. My shoulders were hunched and stiff with tension, my hands locked in a death-grip on the steering-wheel.

The car phone rang, almost causing me to jump out of my skin. I had never been in a vehicle which had one as part of the normal equipment. My caller was James. Despite the fact that it’s illegal to talk on the phone whilst driving, I had to take a chance on the police catching me.

His voice was a cheep which broke up as I passed through mobile dead spots.

‘Eloise? Where are you? I…ring you at Pam’s place… no answer…where…coming back…’

Keeping my eyes on the car ahead, I screamed back, trying to talk like a ventriloquist so no one would see my lips moving and know I was on the phone.

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