To Find Him and Love Him Again (Volume 3): Book Ten (3) in the Tyack & Frayne Mystery Series (The Tyack & Frayne Mysteries 11) by Harper Fox

Author:Harper Fox
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: FoxTales
Published: 2021-05-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Homebound (Jenny Spargo)

Gideon flinched. As always in moments of shock or bewilderment, he found Lee right there next to him—bracing, mitigating, a shield against all wickedness and evil. Lee had pulled from some pocket or other a clean white handkerchief, and was on his toes in front of him, reaching up. “It’s just that spot there,” Lee said, calmly as if Gid had been heading out to work with a smear of breakfast marmalade on his chin. “Hold still. I’ve got it. All gone.”

“Yes, but... what the hell was it?”

Lee drew breath, as if to find God only knew what answer for him, but Daz let loose a cry of delight, cutting both of them off. “What? Holy Lady Tamar, are you telling me he still doesn’t know?”

Lee turned on him fiercely. “He does know. He faced it all in London—everything that he was, and what he could do, and what he had to stop himself from doing. He just... doesn’t remember the details of this last part, that’s all.”

“I do.” Gently Gideon took Lee’s hand down from his chest. He didn’t need to be restrained, did he? “I saw Joe, and he had Sarah’s two youngest kids with him, pulling them along. He was taking them to... Christ, to the same hole in the rocks where he killed his brother, and hid Lorna away, and... and you, Lee. So I ran for him.”

“Yes. Yes, you did, good Guardian Frayne.”

“All right. But I... just made him go away, didn’t I? Pushed him through a different kind of hole, into some different universe or timeline. I mean, that’s what happens around here, isn’t it? It’s not like I tore him apart and...” He fell silent. Then he whipped the handkerchief back out of Lee’s grasp, opened its folds and looked at it. “Oh, God.”

Darren was doubled up. It took him a couple of attempts to straighten his spine, and several whooping inhalations more before he could speak. “Oh!” he declared, tears spilling. “Oh, I declare. Oh, you bloody great beast—you’ve been and gone and done it now, haven’t you?”

Lee pointed a savage finger at him. He planted his free hand back in place on Gideon’s chest, meeting no resistance this time. “What if he has? It takes a beast to kill a beast on these moors, Daz Prowse. He was all set to find his way home and deal with it like a copper, like a stupid old plod, as you like to call him. And he’d never have got anywhere. He’d have worked and worked. And Joe bloody Kemp, and all the beasts like him, would just have carried on, leaving no traces, no tracks, not a scrap of DNA, or... nothing human. They never fucking do.”

He fell silent. Daz had stopped laughing. Had tipped his head on one side and listened, as if a song of truth had finally got itself airborne, words made of sunlight and earth. Gideon had listened too—the song and its dying echoes—but he was lost, his throat full of dust and the taste of another man’s blood.

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