[David Raker 07] Broken Heart by Tim Weaver

Author:Tim Weaver [Tim Weaver]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, Crime, Suspense, Mystery & Detective, Private Investigators, General
ISBN: 9781405917834
Google: PdYCDAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2016-07-27T23:00:00+00:00

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My heart sank as she moved further into the room, almost reluctant to cross it, as if she were wading into a swamp she knew there was no escape from. Her eyes shifted from me to Egan and then back to me, and she said, ‘That’s enough.’

Egan made an incredulous noise.

She turned to him again. ‘I mean it.’

I just gazed at her, unable to understand why she was here, why she was involved with Egan, with Zeller, with whatever this was. She seemed to pick up on what I was thinking, like she was seeing right into my head, and she perched herself on the empty desk, about six feet from where I was, and just sat at its edge and stared into a space between us. Finally, when she looked up, she had an apologetic slant to her face, a tightening of the lips that said sorry clearer than any words ever could. Egan was behind her, unable to see her expression, and probably thought the two of us were just staring at each other, sizing each other up. Or maybe he didn’t. Maybe he knew everything – how she’d played me from the first moment we’d met. I thought I was better than that – too strong to fall for those tricks, too wise. But in the end she’d reeled me in. I’d been as weak as the next man.

Just bait on the end of a line.

She was wearing a dark blue skirt-suit, tailored to follow the curves of her body, and as she sat there, legs crossed, she removed her jacket and placed it beside her. She looked from my wrists, my arms still bound behind me, aching, numb, to the handcuff at my ankle – and then she started checking her pockets.

‘I never wanted any of this, David,’ she said quietly, and produced a packet of cigarettes. ‘Once the police investigation hit a dead end, I hoped that would be the end of it. I hoped that no one else would get involved in the search for Lynda Korin. No one would get hurt.’ She stopped, shrugged. ‘Unfortunately, that’s not what’s happened. We’ve been monitoring Wendy Fisher’s calls, just in case she ever decided to get someone else involved, but somehow we must have missed her call to you, because the first time I ever heard so much as a mention of your name was when I was at the Comet, talking to Louis, and he told me that you were meeting him, and that you wanted to talk about …’ She stopped, swallowed, the words seeming to stick in her throat. ‘Robert Hosterlitz,’ she said finally, quickly, wanting her lips to be rid of his name. ‘I felt deflated. I felt even worse when we met.’

‘I’m sorry to have upset you,’ I said, my words shot through with such a sense of betrayal, it was like they were wrapped in barbed wire.

‘I understand why you’re upset.’

‘Do you?’

She nodded. ‘I do, believe me. You told me

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