We Can See You (2018) by Simon Kernick

Author:Simon Kernick [Kernick, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784752293
Google: LkYpuwEACAAJ
Publisher: Random House UK Limited
Published: 2019-05-29T21:00:00+00:00

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Brook watched through her rear-view mirror as, a little over forty-five minutes after she’d walked into the Lovers Beach restaurant, her lawyer and former friend Angie Southby came walking back out again, fishing her car keys out of a Hermes purse as she strode towards her car. She was dressed for business in a tailored black pantsuit and court shoes with three-inch heels, and Brook toyed with the idea of confronting her and demanding to know what she was doing, meeting the woman that her husband had been having an affair with, but she held back, figuring she’d do better to wait for Maria Reyes’s appearance.

Brook watched as Angie got into her black Tesla and drove quickly out of the lot. She’d known Angie for three years and had considered her a friend but, since she’d split up with her boyfriend, Bruce, Brook had hardly seen or heard from her.

And now, sitting here, she asked herself why it was that things had tailed off. Had Logan and Angie been having an affair? If so, who’d finished it? If it was Angie, then no problem – Logan would have accepted it and moved on to his next victim, as he clearly had. But if Logan had been the one who’d broken it off, that put a different slant on things. Angie was a hard woman, a ball-breaker, some men would call her. Brook had always admired that about her character. She was the kind of woman who could take on men at their own game and win. She was aggressive and almost impossible to intimidate – both essential traits for a successful criminal lawyer – but she was also pretty damned scary, and Brook couldn’t imagine her taking rejection very well at all. In a rare candid moment, Angie had once told Brook that she had a hard exterior but was soft inside, and Brook remembered looking into her eyes and thinking she really didn’t believe that.

But was she capable of killing Logan and setting Brook up for the rap? To do that required a ruthlessness that sat far better with a cartel gangster like Tony Reyes and, in the end, what was in it for Angie? It didn’t make sense. But then nothing did any more.

Brook was just trying to work out exactly how many enemies she might have when Maria Reyes walked out of the restaurant and headed towards her car, looking round a little too furtively as she did so.

This was it. Brook’s one chance for answers and, now that it came to it, she was scared stiff. But as she’d learned a long time ago, the longer you think about taking an important step, the harder it becomes, and the easier it is to convince yourself you can’t do it. Sometimes everything in life comes down to one important lesson. Don’t think. Act.

Taking a deep breath, Brook got out of the Mercedes and started to follow Maria, pretending to look for something in her purse. It was

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