Days Without Number by Robert Goddard

Author:Robert Goddard
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Thriller
ISBN: 9780552164900
Publisher: Corgi
Published: 2003-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Andrew and Kate had met on a diving course at Fort Bovisand. They had married while Nick was still at school and thrown themselves into making a success of Carwether Farm. Things had only begun to go wrong after Tom was born. By then things were going wrong for Nick as well. The final break-up of their marriage had passed him by. As far as he could recall, Terry Mawson had not been on the scene at the time, though he shortly after was. Kate had married him in the mid-Eighties, just as his Devon-based building business was transforming itself into a nationwide property company. He had made a medium-sized fortune before the boom turned to bust and timed his exit from the housing market to perfection. Since then he had invested here and there and God knows where to ever better effect, such that he and Kate now led a semi-retired life of leisure, divided between a big house in Surrey and a scarcely smaller villa in Spain, with a golf course on both doorsteps.

It was difficult to begrudge them their prosperity, though naturally Andrew had. The fact was that Terry had worked hard for what he enjoyed and freely admitted that what had looked like shrewdness had often been luck. He was a genially blunt-mannered bear of a man, fond of cigars, golf and fast cars. The stereotype did not extend to a roving eye, however.

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He was a devoted if not uxorious husband, despite a lack of children which had reputedly led him to spend a lot of time and money on exotic fertility treatments - to no avail. Andrew's one consolation for losing Kate had been her failure to bear Terry a son to compete with Tom.

Kate's view of the matter was unrecorded. She had preserved the unsentimental, level-headed demeanour of the farmer's wife she no longer was. Not for her the gin bottle and the poolside lounger. She owned a riding school in Ascot and an interior design studio in Camberley. She was very much her own woman. But she was no longer as busy as she had formerly been. Her and Terry's concerns ticked by profitably without much day-to-day involvement on their part, freeing them to ...

What exactly? Nick turned the question over in his mind as the train ambled down through Hounslow and Staines. He could not believe what it seemed he had to. A less likely pair of conspirators than Kate and Terry he could not imagine. They had everything they wanted, including each other. And the Paleologus family had done them no harm. More criticism had been levelled at Andrew over the divorce than at Kate. Friendly relations had always been maintained. Tom was held to be a credit to his mother and by implication to his stepfather. There had been no feud.

But Marty Braxton's delvings left no room for doubt. Kate and Terry's fingerprints were on the Tantris money. And money was one thing they were not short of.

As promised,

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