A Deathly Drop: A DCI Marshall Scottish Crime Thriller by Ramsay Sinclair

Author:Ramsay Sinclair [Sinclair, Ramsay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

19

I sat and watched as Lucy and Dillan got out of the car and walked away from me. The lamp posts by the bridge were few, the light they gave off was dim, and it wasn’t long before the shadows of my DCs’ backs had disappeared from my view altogether.

It didn’t sit right with me to let them walk away like that while I sat back in the relative safety of the car. They were police officers, it was their job, and they had volunteered, but I was the one who had dragged them out here in the first place. It felt like I was sending them off into the abyss with barely a second thought for their safety. Lucy, in particular, was a worry. I wondered how much good her training with Bridget had done her so far. Something told me that we could be about to find out, although I hoped not.

I consoled myself with the thought that someone had to stay behind and watch the bridge. As I was the one with a paralysing fear of getting too close to said bridge, it made sense that I should be the one to stay in the car. I told myself over and over that it made sense, but it didn’t make me feel any better. The silhouettes of my DCs had long since vanished, and I had no idea how far into the darkness they had now walked.

They’ll radio if anything happens, I told myself. I would know right away.

I wondered for a second if I had actually seen someone up ahead. It had certainly seemed that way at the time. There had been a figure, a shadow of a man, shuffling about by the edge of the bridge. It hadn’t been a simple passerby either. The figure, whoever it was, had been ambling, loitering, waiting about in the shadows for reasons unknown. Who or what he was waiting for was anyone’s guess, but his intentions were not innocent. That much I was certain of.

The longer I waited, the more Lucy’s words ran through my brain and made me second guess myself. Was I just seeing what I expected to see, brought on by the lack of light and the fact that it was now almost three o’clock? If anything was going to happen, then surely it was going to happen very soon. Perhaps my imagination had leapt into action at that realisation and made me imagine something that was not actually there. Perhaps. Then again, perhaps I hadn’t been seeing imaginary things and someone else was going to die tonight.

A shudder ran through me at the thought, and I found myself wondering once more where Lucy and Dillan were. They had not yet radioed, so everything had to be fine.

Everything had to be fine.

Straining my eyes through the darkness up ahead, I tried once more to see the mysterious figure. He had been there. I knew he had. But where was he now? It was no good. He was no longer anywhere to be seen, which put me more on edge than ever.

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