Despite the Darkness by David Maughan Brown

Author:David Maughan Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published: 2019-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

On his way home Cameron was too busy contemplating the bleakness of the future, and rather less bleakly reflecting on the unexpectedness of Lynn’s kiss, to think through what he was going to tell Jules about the events of the afternoon. So he was caught off-guard by the question Jules met him with as he went through to the kitchen to tell her he was back.

‘Back from where exactly?’ Jules asked. ‘Patrick phoned just after I got home and said he’d been trying to get hold of you all afternoon but you weren’t on campus. Where have you been?’

Jules would not be at all happy that he had gone out to Edendale on a wild goose chase taking what she would see as a considerable risk in the process. She had never been comfortable about his going out there for meetings. A rumour that he might be a police agent would not have made him any less of an insurance risk. The visit to Sammy would be a different matter, but she would want to know how he had got there. He wouldn’t normally have had any difficulty in telling her that he had borrowed Lynn’s car, but that parting kiss made the telling feel awkward – it wasn’t as if it had been unwelcome.

‘I’ve been really worried about Mirambo and felt I needed to try to do something to find out what had happened to him,’ Cameron answered. ‘We had an address in Edendale on file from when he first applied. All his papers have been removed from his file in Student Records but Michelle had kept a note of it so I went out there to ask whether anyone had seen him.’

‘And I’m sure they welcomed you by slaughtering a beast and showering you with gifts,’ Jules replied. ‘Let me guess – they had heard the bloody fool rumour that you are a police agent and told you to fuck off in Zulu.’

‘No – in English,’ Cameron said. ‘They didn’t mince their words in telling me to get the hell out – it was a mistake going there.’

‘Now there’s a surprise – what did you expect?’ Jules asked. ‘If they knew where Mirambo was and knew the SB were after him they wouldn’t have told you where he was, even if they didn’t think you might be working for the police. What were you thinking of? How did you get there anyway, if you didn’t take the car?’

‘I wanted to make sure I wasn’t followed so I borrowed Lynn’s car,’ Cameron said. ‘What did Patrick want?’

‘I’ve no idea what he wanted, beyond wanting to talk to you – I didn’t ask. He asked me to tell you he needs to see you first thing in the morning. Is Lynn normally in the habit of lending her car out to all and sundry, or are you somehow special?’

‘No, of course I’m not special,’ Cameron said, ‘it’s just that Lynn wasn’t needing her car…’

‘Which she would have had to

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