When You're Smiling: A Gripping British Crime Thriller (DI Benjamin Kidd Crime Thrillers Book 1) by GS Rhodes

Author:GS Rhodes [Rhodes, GS]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Dark Ship Crime
Published: 2021-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

“What the fuck did I say to you?” Zoe asked as she got into the car next to Kidd. He’d taken off his tie and bundled it up to stem the flow of blood coming from his nose.

DS Sanchez had reached him in good time, stopping when she saw that Kidd was doubled up on the ground. She’d stared down at him, disapproval written so clearly across her face it might as well have been written there in Sharpie. He’d messed up, and he’d messed up big time.

First thing to do when you catch somebody is to restrain both their hands. He’d grabbed one and got elbowed in the nose because he didn’t think Warrington had it in him to fight back. Now he was paying the price.

“I told you not to do anything daft, and what did you do?”

“Something daft,” Kidd grumbled. He pulled on his seatbelt and waited for Zoe to start the car, but she didn’t. “Can we go? There are people looking.”

“You mean you’re not so photo-ready with dried blood on your chin?” she snapped. “Honestly, Kidd, did you forget how to be a police officer while you were off?”

“I was off for six months, I wasn’t meant to do anything police-related or police adjacent. I was supposed to be de-stressing.”

“Well, you’ve stressed me out, so maybe we should trade places,” Zoe growled, starting the engine and speeding off into the night.

They’d not spent a huge amount of time at Colin’s house, but the nights drew in pretty quickly in the winter and it was already dark. But it was only as they were driving, that Kidd realised they weren’t going back to the station.

“Wrong turning, Zoe,” Kidd said. She didn’t respond, her eyes fixed on the road, her knuckles white where they gripped the steering wheel. “Zoe?”

“I’m taking you to the hospital, you complete idiot,” she grumbled.

“What? Why?” Kidd growled. “We need to get back to the station.”

“We need to get you checked over by a doctor.”

“Zoe, I’m not—”

“Weaver left me in charge of you,” she interrupted. “And if I don’t take you to the hospital and something happens, like you pass out or don’t show up for work tomorrow, it’s my head in the smasher.”

“Zoe, it doesn’t hurt, I don’t need to—”

“You’re going and that’s the end of it,” Zoe snapped. “I don’t want to hear another word. Just try not to bleed on the car because if you do, you’re paying to have it professionally cleaned.”

Kidd opened his mouth to respond but knew it would be no use. Zoe was very much in the driver’s seat in every sense of the word. He had to do as he was told this time.

Kingston Hospital wasn’t the usual madhouse that it could be of an evening. It had taken them a little while to get there because of traffic, and by the time they got seen to, the workday was practically over, much to Kidd’s frustration. No more progress was likely to be made today.

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