Georgia on My Mind by Glen Davies

Author:Glen Davies [Davies, Glen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Endeavour Media
Published: 2019-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

17

The morning away from the orchestra and the Dramatic Society proved to be just what she’d needed. She was even relaxed enough to grab a nap between the concert and the play, and came off stage after the curtain call more centred than she’d felt since the discovery of the first body.

‘Glad to see you’re on top of it all, at any rate.’ As usual, Ken’s comment fell somewhere between a compliment and a complaint. Then, as always, he caught her around the waist as they went off into the wings, and tried to reprise their stage kiss.

‘I’d rather believe what Raki said.’ She slipped from Ken’s grasp as Sophie raised an eyebrow and murmured something scornful in Tamara’s ear. ‘We were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. After all, any of us could walk out tomorrow morning and be hit by a forty-ton truck.’ As she’d tried to tell her mother and Neville in the emailed reply to their demand for her immediate return. ‘Live for the day, that’s going to be my philosophy from now on.’

‘That’s easy for you,’ he growled.

‘Is it?’

‘All you’ve got to do tomorrow is look at some photos. I’ve got to explain to this Harley fellow exactly why I didn’t tell the British police I was in the gents.’

‘Then they know?’

‘Yup. Found another tape. There I was, large as life, going in for a quick slash – ’

‘Things that could be better expressed?’

‘A quick pee.’ He gave her a fleeting smile, a ghost of the old Ken. ‘So I’m top of the list for a grilling when he comes here tomorrow.’

‘He’s coming here?’

‘Yup. Saves us dragging into New York.’

‘Oh.’ She tried to control her disappointment. ‘Bang goes my visit to the Statue of Liberty then…’

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