The Perfect Home: A gripping psychological thriller with a heart-stopping climax by Kevin Lynch

Author:Kevin Lynch [Lynch, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inkubator Books
Published: 2022-01-29T16:00:00+00:00

I got a chance to talk to Nick the next day after work. Steve was out in his drive as I got back, music blaring, grinning over at me. I took a deep breath and went into the house. Nick arrived about a half hour after me. I had texted him and said we needed to talk. I wasn’t going to confront him about the money, of course, but I felt I could sound him out. More than that, I wanted to see if he had anything further to say about Steve and Cathy. She was clearly in danger of blowing her college altogether.

‘Well?’ He plodded in the door with the look of someone who has put in a hard day’s work, overalls grassy and hands still mucky. He washed his hands before putting the kettle on and joining me at the table with a mug of tea and some of his never-ending stash of biscuits.

‘I needed to ask you for money for Sam. He’s going on an outdoor adventure trip, part of some assignment. He needs two hundred, so whatever you can contribute.’

Nick looked out the window in response. His brow was furrowed. ‘Of course. When does he need it?’ he said eventually in a ponderous voice.

‘Tomorrow, I think. I can cover it for the moment, so you can give it back to me.’

Nick smiled without warmth. ‘Sure. It’s just I’m waiting on a pay-out from McCann. He’s going to come up with it shortly, just some cash-flow issues, but it’ll be a good chunk when I get it.’

That sent alarm bells ringing. He was waiting on cash from McCann, so he was obviously short. Someone in that situation might just decide they would take an unofficial ‘loan’.

‘Oh. You’ve been working for him for a while now. Surely, he can give you part payment.’ I was suspicious with Nick, but at the same time, if he was getting the run-around from McCann, that wasn’t on.

Nick stiffened. ‘So you think maybe he has paid me some, but I’m holding back?’

‘No, that’s not what I meant. I think it’s very unfair of him not to have paid you at all. How are you supposed to keep going?’

‘He’ll be good for it. Some businessmen operate like that. They prefer to pay people in lumps rather than in bits and pieces.’

I wasn’t convinced. McCann had too much of the smooth salesman about him, and Nick, for all his other faults, was a bit of an innocent when it came to other people.

‘It’s okay. I’ll cover Sam for the moment, but there were a couple of other things I wanted to ask you about. First was if you think Sam is smoking a lot of weed. He’s spending lots of time with that guy Philly, and he seems to come home stoned.’

‘Is he getting his college work done?’

‘He seems to be scraping by. That won’t be enough to get him the scholarship for next year. They look at both academic and sports performance.’

‘Hmm. I’ll have a word with him.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.