How to Kill Your Friends by Phil Kurthausen

Author:Phil Kurthausen [Kurthausen, Phil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912986798
Publisher: Bloodhound Books
Published: 2019-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

17

Olivia had said she had some errands to run so had not joined the rest of The Squad for the afternoon’s activities.

Meredith was pleased about this as she had felt that Olivia’s new air of courteousness was concealing something else. She told herself that this was probably just paranoia but she couldn’t help but feel that Olivia was watching her, and the Instagram comment from Steel had spooked her.

She had gone online and looked up Steel, but apart from the Instagram profile there was no information, and the profile itself carried no pictures of the user nor did the feed show the identity. Meredith had a good idea who it could be based on the pictures that were on there. There were not many images, and no comments or likes, just pictures of a strip of stores, Douglas firs, redwoods surrounding the remains of a campfire and a bunch of trailer homes all from a small town on the North Pacific Coast that Meredith recognised well.

It didn’t matter though: so what if they thought they recognised her? It meant nothing, signified nothing and they couldn’t do her any harm. But it annoyed her that someone could reach out, over thousands of miles and from many years in the past, and place a cold finger of doubt on her.

She consoled herself by looking out at the magnificent view from Sant Jeroni, the peak of the mountain of Montserrat. They had taken an early morning train from Barcelona to the abbey and then climbed up the trails to the highest point which gave unrivalled views across the plain, back towards Barcelona and the Mediterranean. Adam had wanted a place to shoot some images outside the city and Meredith had known he would love the otherworldly atmosphere of the saw-backed mountain. Once you were up here amongst the towering granite formations and ancient hermitages and caves of long dead monks it was easy to see why many had thought it was the resting place of the Holy Grail.

Adam had loved it but this initial enthusiasm had begun to pale when he was forced to walk up the steep paths that led from the monastery to this vantage point. As Dylan and Richard raced ahead, she had accompanied him and been subject to his smoker wheeze as they climbed.

She had used the opportunity to broach the subject of her future with The Squad and the possibility of being paid, not just for finding Amy, but for her work with them.

He had paused and lit up a cigarette in the same way that a mountaineer might reach for an oxygen tank and it had seemed to alleviate his immediate breathing difficulties. ‘I hear you, I really do. And your posts, well, you know they’ve been amazing. Great results and, fuck me, that last one, through the fucking roof. But I’ve been good, yeah. That hotel room doesn’t come free, you know.’

She had declined to say that he had already paid for it for Amy.

He continued, accompanying each point with a little jab of his cigarette.

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