The Shooting by Chris Taylor

Author:Chris Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chris Taylor
Published: 2015-05-20T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Seventeen years earlier

Tom stared at the computer screen in front of him and did his best to concentrate on completing his report. Earlier in the day, he’d attended the scene of a break and enter in the leafy, northern suburb of Lindfield and was now writing up his findings. Fingerprint technicians had attended the scene and were lucky enough to find a single print from what looked like an index finger, but a suspect had yet to be identified. It was just another day in the life of a New South Wales police officer.

Tom had been transferred to Chatswood Police Station a couple of months earlier and was pleased at the change of scene. Too many of his colleagues at the western Sydney station knew about Lily and the broken heart she’d left behind. It was a relief to come to work and not be the subject of gentle chiding or even worse, sympathetic looks, from his colleagues.

Besides, Chatswood was closer to the city and he’d found a cheap, one-bedroom apartment not far from where he worked. The building was a little run down and sometimes the neighbors were loud, but it was clean and comfortable. Best of all, it didn’t hold any memories of the woman who’d said she’d loved him then left him, all in a matter of weeks.

It had been seven months and three days since she’d told him it was over and he still felt the pain of it like it had happened yesterday. The swiftness of her change in attitude toward him still put his mind into a spin. He’d questioned her about it as calmly as he could, doing his best to keep his hurt and confusion in check, but he’d come away angry and dissatisfied with her answers and her vague references to needing time apart.

“I’m young, Tom. We both are. We owe it to ourselves to see what’s out there, what the world has to offer. I don’t want to get tied down like my mom did, at a young age, and then live to regret it.”

Her words stung as much now as they had then and he gritted his teeth at the memory. It was time he moved on and forgot about her. He was young, fit, in the prime of his life. He needed to remember this every time he found himself moping about what had gone wrong. He needed to let go of it. He needed to let go of her. They were over. Whatever they’d once had was gone. Done. Finished. He had to cut his losses and move on. It was as simple as that.

“Got any plans for the weekend, Tom?”

The question came from Rusty Webb, one of Tom’s colleagues. About Tom’s age, Rusty had a smile that made even Tom’s lips want to twitch upwards in response. Fit and toned with a cheeky grin, Rusty was a man on a mission.

He’d quite openly told his colleagues that it was his goal to sleep with as many women as he could in as short a time as possible.

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