Cambridge 01: Poison by Charlot King

Author:Charlot King [King, Charlot]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: 2_read, Cozy_VariousAuthors, -new
Amazon: B00ZJLF4A6
Goodreads: 25719613
Publisher: Beautiful Day Cambridge Ltd
Published: 2015-06-11T00:00:00+00:00

Not far from the Professor’s room, Rebecca is now alone in her married couple’s college apartment. Kara and Jonathan have left, taking the first car load of boxes and suitcases. She sits on the bed looking at the sky through the tiny leaded window. A blue silk scarf with tiny Scotty dogs draped over her shoulders, the radio beside her, quietly emitting classical music. After a short time the piece comes to an end and a presenter reads the news headlines. ‘The brother-in-law of Conservative MP Jonathan Smythe-Jones has died after falling into the River Cam last night. Dr Edward Wiley, was a don at the university. Cambridgeshire police have not confirmed the cause of death, but the local Conservative MP for Ely, Jonathan Smythe-Jones, released a statement saying the family are devastated and to thank people for their kind thoughts at this very sad time.’ Rebecca gets off the bed and starts to go through her jewellery box, and jewellery stand. She looks through a lot of necklaces. She can’t find what she is looking for, and continues to search through all her belongings on the table top. Make up bags, carry purses are emptied, but still nothing. Then opens the table drawers one by one and tips out all the lingerie, black, pink, green with tiny petals. She can’t find it. Rebecca walks across to the bedside table and pulls open the draw. Nothing. She leans across the bed and opens Edward’s bedside table. Rebecca looks panicked. She scrabbles in some final boxes Kara and Jonathan haven’t taken yet but still nothing.

“Where is it?”

She hears a knock at the door and walks out into the drawing room. It is Carter, with a parcel and a tray of tea and biscuits. Rebecca carries them into the bedroom. How kind of Carter. Using some scissors from a drawer she cuts open the wrapping. Inside is a bundle of hand written letters, tied up with a ribbon. Rebecca recognises the handwriting, as she unties them letting them fall and scatter on the bed around her. There must be two dozen at least, all with foreign stamps. She starts to read the first and her face begins to change. As she turns the page she looks at the envelope in disbelief and back again at the words. Her eyes fill with tears until one escapes and runs down her cheek.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.