Urban Witch (Urban Witch Series - Book 1) by R.L. Giddings

Author:R.L. Giddings [Giddings, R.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

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Approaching the escalators, my mind drifted back to my conversation with Marcus. I was starting to wish that I’d stayed with him back at the pub. Whilst I had no intention of jumping into bed with him, or anything like that, I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t enjoy his company.

I found myself wondering, and not for the first time, why Millie had been so dismissive of Marcus. Was it down to jealousy? Perhaps she’d been attracted to him, only to discover that he wasn’t interested. Perhaps they’d even slept together. Millie wouldn’t have taken kindly to being given the cold shoulder.

That’s what was on my mind when I arrived at the top of the escalator and realised I was being followed.

I’d seen him earlier in the day when we’d been standing in the entrance way. I’d dismissed him as a busker but now I wasn’t so sure.

I remembered that he’d stood further along the corridor reading the operating instructions on one of the phones which had struck me as odd at the time because he’d shown no interest in using them. And then I’d caught him looking at me. Just the once, but it was enough.

I saw him again in the fish eye mirror at the bottom of the escalator turning left onto the Northern Line.

I knew the route well and had travelled along it on numerous occasions. The walkway echoed with the sound of footsteps, the squeal of brakes and amplified guitar music coming from one of the elevated walkways. The fish-eye mirror is there to let you see who’s coming around the corner. It’s a way of discouraging pick-pockets.

There was virtually no chance that the man was following me by coincidence if it was indeed the same man, and I was pretty sure that it was. But who was he and why was he targeting me? He could be working for Kinsella, of course. It would make sense to have me followed if he suspected that I might have been involved in the attack on Helena. But what if this man wasn’t attached to the Ministry? What if someone else had sent him? One of Silas’ associates?

And then there was the other, more worrying possibility. What if this was the same man who had stabbed Helena? He wouldn’t be the first murderer drawn back to the scene of a crime. He would have seen the pair of us examining the site and then it would have only taken a little patience to follow us up into the sunshine. I bet he couldn’t believe his luck when he had seen me heading back towards the Underground.

I quickly examined my options as we came to the top of the second escalator. I could simply turn around and head back up to ground level, but that would signal that I knew that I was being followed and he’d just slip away into the crowd. My mobile wouldn’t be able to pick up a signal this far down so there was no chance of me calling Marcus for help.

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