Axe to Grind: A British Crime Thriller (DCI Pilgrim Crime Thriller Book 1) by A L Fraine

Author:A L Fraine [Fraine, A L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-13T16:00:00+00:00

15

After dropping off their notes at the station, Jon closed his office door and looked over at Kate where she stood before her PC, leaning over to turn it off, and felt a moment of guilt run through his mind.

Was this the right thing to do? Should he really be doing this?

He wondered what Charlotte would think of him going for a drink with his female partner. He couldn’t help but feel guilty, as though he was cheating on her somehow, even though she’d been gone for five years now.

But then, this wasn’t his first dalliance with a woman since his wife had passed. He’d had a few dates and encounters over the last few years. Nothing that lasted very long though.

Usually, he ended things because he felt like he was cheating on Charlotte, or they left him because they didn’t like the photos of Charlotte at his home. That, or they just couldn’t cope with his dedication to the job and the long hours that inevitably came with it.

He wasn’t sure this was even a date though, not really. He didn’t want to assume anything and thought it best to think of it as nothing more than a quick drink with a work friend. Like he’d done with Damon last night.

He couldn’t help how his eyes were drawn to her, however, as he watched her finish up at her computer and then walk over, smiling at him as she pulled on her magenta coat.

“Ready?” she asked.

“Of course,” he replied, and followed her out of the station. “Do you think anything will come from these chats with Mollie’s friends?”

Kate smiled. “I have no idea,” she said. “Who knows. Maybe.”

“Yeah, maybe…”

“Tell you what, no work talk tonight,” she said.

Jon met her gaze and then nodded. “Yeah, okay. That’ll be a challenge.”

“How come?”

“That’s about all I’ve done for the last five years. Eat, sleep, and work.”

“I’m sure there’s more to you than that, Pilgrim.”

“If there is, I don’t know what it could be. I’m a fairly one-dimensional kind of man.”

“Aren’t all men that shallow?”

“Oh, wow. We’re going there are we, Barry?”

“If you’re going to insist on calling me Barry, then yeah, we’re going there,” she replied as they walked out of the station.

“Alright, point taken.”

“So, what do you think of her then?”

“Who?”

“The station.” Kate pointed back at the brutalist grey building.

“Well, I guess she’s alright. Certainly better appointed than my previous station.”

“Yeah, she does us proud.”

Jon nodded as they spotted a gap in the traffic and crossed the road.

“Oh, look, they knew you were coming,” he said and pointed to the stocks that were on a patch of grass in front of the establishment.

“I think they’d suit you better. I could do with some target practice. Why don’t you pop your head in there, and I’ll find some tomatoes to chuck at you.”

“You just want to have your wicked way with me, don’t you, Miss O’Connell?”

“How did you guess? Shit, I’m going to have to watch what I say from now on,” she quipped, as they walked into the pub, and over to the bar.

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