Tracing the Contours: Coincidence makes a dangerous companion, if it creates a thirty year old mystery, the day you arrive! (Luke Adams Investigates Book 1) by Honor-Amelia Dawson

Author:Honor-Amelia Dawson [Dawson, Honor-Amelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: humorous banter, plot twists and turns, unconventional approach, detective agency, psychological thriller, suspense, male and female protagonists
Published: 2014-06-10T00:00:00+00:00

Ben was waiting for her downstairs next to the breakfast table. He was cheerful, greeting her with a wide smile and sparkling eyes, and offered to make her whatever she wanted. She craved eggs, free-range with a beautiful orange yolk and poached. He told her to sit down and scurried away. Moments later, David appeared.

'Slept well?' he asked.

Megan frowned. 'As always.'

'I'm not sure I could, if I had a death threat hanging over me.'

'It was a mechanical fault. It wasn't a deliberate attack.'

He smirked. 'You know that for sure?'

'Do you know something?'

'What would I know?'

He was hiding something, or was that what he wanted her to believe?

'You don't trust me, do you?' he asked.

She straightened her back. 'You've never given me reason to.'

'I've never given you reason not to.'

He reached for a bowl, added the cereal and milk, grabbed a spoon, and started to walk away. 'Then there is no point telling you what I know . . . your loss.'

He dropped onto the sofa. The cereal crunched in his mouth.

'What do you know?'

'No point me telling. I can't be trusted.'

'David! Tell me!'

He glanced at the doorway, looking for Ben, and signalled her to draw closer. She obliged, although under duress.

'You are very pretty when you're angry,' he whispered.

She jerked back. He grabbed her wrist with his free hand.

'Leave me alone!' she hissed, tussling free.

'Larry thinks so too. He wants Dad gone . . . sees him as competition.'

'Your lying. Larry is just a friend.'

'If you don't believe me, ask him.'

Her eyes darkened, her glare intensified. 'Stay away from my friends.'

He grinned. 'Absolutely not. I'm watching your back, as Dad asked. And anyhow, you'll never know when you might need me.'

'I need you as much as I need a hole in the heart.'

'One day, you'll regret saying that.'

'Unlikely.'

Disgruntled, Megan returned to the table. David held a self-satisfied, lascivious expression. He was sick in the head, and she struggled to understand why he was always so determined to annoy her. Wilful in her decision to remain nonchalant, she forced her face to relax, and flicked through advertising blurb on the table.

There was nothing of interest within, but it served a purpose, and focused her attention until Ben arrived. The food was exquisite; the poached eggs were evenly shaped and the toast was soaked in butter. It was tantalising. She shuffled closer to the table and offered Ben her utmost appreciation, almost entirely for David's benefit, but annoyingly, he seemed to be absorbed with the television.

'Fancy doing something different today? Ben asked.

'Haven't you got to work?'

'I have time owed to me, so I've arranged for the day off.'

'What did you want to do?'

A smile swept across his face. 'I want to surprise you.'

'I don't want to go anywhere.'

'Of course not, and anyway, it would be a bit difficult without a car.'

Her enthusiasm drained away and she lowered her head. 'About that-'

'Don't you think I am just a wee bit happy you left the keys in the car?'

'I suppose.'

He cut through the toast with his knife.

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