The Phoenix Series: Books 4-6 (The Phoenix Series Box Set) (The Phoenix Series Boxset Book 2) by Ted Tayler

The Phoenix Series: Books 4-6 (The Phoenix Series Box Set) (The Phoenix Series Boxset Book 2) by Ted Tayler

Author:Ted Tayler [Tayler, Ted]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-12T22:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER 12

Honey B performed to just over a thousand adoring fans in the end. The young manager had his ‘I told you so’ face on as he strutted around backstage. He was smart enough to steer clear of the top of the bill when she made her way to the stage. There was no point in rubbing her nose in it.

Wayne was somewhere backstage deep in conversation with the pretty singer in the support band. He had no chance, but Phil didn’t want to spoil the moment. It filled in time until Honey B had finished her two-hour set and retired to the dressing room. He would then interrupt Wayne and get him to have Dusty and Leggo on standby, ready to whisk their charge off to her five-star hotel.

How long they hung around depended on how much champagne she wanted to use to loosen his tongue tonight. She was an extraordinary woman. She was attractive and yet cold. She exasperated him when she pouted and stamped her feet over the slightest glitch, yet she could be sweetness and light with her audience.

As an interrogator, Phil reckoned she could have made an excellent detective.

Their after-show conversations were pleasant and covered many subjects that demonstrated her high level of intelligence. She sensed at once when Phil was off his guard, and he found himself answering an innocent question without realising its importance. Her follow-up questions came rapidly, leaving no time for filtering out things he didn’t want to reveal.

He knew he had told her far too much about Colin Bailey, but what difference did it make if he was dead?

Phil stood in the wings listening to Honey B going through her greatest hits for the umpteenth night in a row. He heard something that caused him to listen more carefully. He shook his head. Well, she was sixty-three after all, and his late mother-in-law Mary started forgetting things in her late sixties.

It struck Phil as odd for a knowledgeable lady that she couldn’t recall the lyrics to one of her chart-toppers. He noticed it on a couple of occasions over the past weeks. If his mother hadn’t owned a copy of the original single and played it non-stop that summer, he wouldn’t have spotted the changes. Odd or not, Phil was not going to raise the matter with her. He wanted to keep HSS in business to bolster his pension, and he had the wages of three employees to satisfy.

A rewarding future with Honey B would be right out of the window if he mentioned her minor memory lapses.



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