Blue On Blue by Dal Maclean

Author:Dal Maclean [Maclean, Dal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Gay, mm, Mystery & Detective
ISBN: 9781935560685
Publisher: One Block Empire (an imprint of Blind Eye Books)
Published: 2020-03-23T18:30:00+00:00

15

Ben was already at Bronzefield when Will arrived, leaning against James’s ancient Toyota. He looked tired and tense, dressed simply in jeans and a dark wool jacket, yet somehow much too luminous for the setting. Definitely too luminous for the carpark.

“I didn’t get much sleep,” Ben said, as they walked toward the prison entrance. “Jamie spent hours trying to talk me out of coming here. So . . . .” He managed a mischievous smirk. “I distracted him by reading the comments from your Daily Mail article. You’re a bad man DI Foster. Lunching. With a television presenter.”

Will forced a game smile in return. Until that moment he’d suppressed the memory of his public humiliation beneath the need to gameplan his next encounter with Eve. But if Ben needed the distraction he’d play along.

“They’re going to take me apart when I get to the station. Again.”

“Such is the price of life as a #hotcop,” Ben said piously.

Will laughed. “You’d know. Living with the gold standard.”

They moved through security relatively quickly; one of the staff remembered Ben from his past visits. Then they waited together outside the Interview Room, like human sacrifices waiting for their big moment. Will felt nauseous with tension; the metal taste of bile in his mouth, the power of adrenalin pumping through him

Then the guard gave the signal.

Ben gave him a taut smile, and as they’d agreed, Will went in first. Ben had advised that Will was more likely to benefit from Eve’s satisfaction that she’d won, if he made his play before Ben soured her mood. So, he took a seat at the same table as before, the table at which he’d last seen June, and watched as Eve was brought in.

She looked startlingly different that morning, and not only because she radiated exhilarated anticipation. She didn’t have much to look forward to, so Will supposed getting the chance to psych out her son and a police officer on the same day must feel like a party. But the change was also physical.

Eve had expertly applied a stylized fifties makeup and arranged her hair in a Hepburn chignon. She wore a tight black top with a low V-neck, and slim black trousers. She looked eerily like the spectacular police mugshot the newspapers had published so many years before; the one colored and stylized, on edgy posters on edgy student walls. It hardly seemed fair that evil had been given this effortlessly perfect shell which even age seemed barely able to touch.

The significant fact for Will though, was that she’d dressed up at all.

He’d given it a lot of thought on and off since his last visit. Strategizing.

Ben’s knowledge of her had reinforced Will’s instinct after the first meeting: that Eve responded to sexual challenge. She was turned on by resistance. She needed to break it down. To reduce every man to the same level. That was how Ben’s father had survived, before he fled. By never entirely giving in.

So, Will had dressed up too. He’d left

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