Hound Dog by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781911420842
Publisher: Canelo Books
Published: 2017-11-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

I don’t recognise the number, but I answer it anyway.

‘Elvis,’ the voice says, ‘it’s Em.’

‘Oh, hi,’ I say, my throat full of sleep.

‘Elvis, something terrible’s happened. Buddy’s been attacked. He’s in a coma.’ She starts to sob.

‘God, that’s terrible. I’m really sorry.’

She’s trying to tell me something but it’s a while before she stops crying enough for me to be able to understand it. ‘Elvis,’ she says when she’s finally coherent, ‘the police want to speak to you. They’re trying to trace Buddy’s movements from when he finished work. He was found on a riverbank and no one knows what he was doing there. Did you see him at all yesterday? He must have gone back to the flat because he wasn’t in uniform.’

‘No, I’m afraid I’d skipped out of your flat by late morning.’

‘You silly billy! I bet you haven’t been to casualty yet, have you?’

‘No, Mum, I haven’t.’

‘Anyway, I couldn’t tell the police how to get hold of you because I didn’t have any contact details, and I don’t actually know what your name is! All I could tell them was that we always called you Elvis, and that wasn’t much help to them. I found this number written down in Buddy’s Buddy room just now, and thought I should give you a call.’

‘Sure, sure.’

‘Now shall I pass this on to the police or—’

‘No! No, what I’ll do is… I’ll go to the station myself and make a statement. So tell them I’m coming to see them, there’s no need to give them this number.’

‘Why not?’

‘If you must know, Em, it’s a stolen phone.’

‘Oh, Elvis.’

‘Look, you take care of yourself, OK? I’m sure Buddy will be fine. I’ll go and make my statement, then I’ll come and see you both in the hospital, how does that sound?’

‘OK,’ she says weakly.

‘Now Buddy’s going to be fine. He’ll be right as rain in no time. But you’ve got to be strong for him, OK? Chin up, there’s a good girl.’

‘Yes, Elvis.’

‘So I’ll go and make my statement now and I’ll see you later, OK?’

‘OK.’

‘You take care now, bye.’

‘Bye-bye.’

Oh my god, how stupid is this woman? It’s obviously me who did it! Why can she not see that? Why does she harbour this insane belief that I am in any way a decent person, when all the evidence suggests I’m a drug-crazed loony with no self-control who clearly wants to fuck her senseless. The police know I did it of course, it’s just finding me that is proving difficult for them. Just goes to show how being known only by the name of a dead celebrity can work in your favour. Even so, the situation is not good. The pigs will be talking to the bar staff at the pub by the river soon if they haven’t done so already, and that will fix me as being with Buddy yesterday afternoon. Also, the description they will give, of a man wearing a pink woman’s smock with a bandaged head, will

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