In Plain Sight by Adam Croft

Author:Adam Croft [adam Croft]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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The crisp chill in the evening air was lost on Theo Curwood thanks to the four pints he’d enjoyed at the Spitfire on his way home that evening. He’d left his car in the pub’s car park, which doubled as the car park for the parade of shops next to it, and was walking the last few hundred yards home. He could never get parked anywhere near his flat as it was, and it allowed him to enjoy a couple of drinks after work before hitting the sack. He had tomorrow off, so he’d pick the car up in the morning if there was a space outside the flat once his neighbours had gone to work.

He was starting to wonder when the streetlights were going to be fixed along this stretch of Heathcote Road. They’d been out for at least a week now. He wasn’t the sort of person who tended to worry about the dark, but he was starting to become much more edgy in general recently, and things like this weren’t helping him. Not one bit.

He glanced furtively over his shoulder, sure someone was watching or following him, but he could see no-one. You’re just being paranoid, he told himself. If you carry on like this, people are going to realise something’s up.

Before he even realised what he was doing, he ducked down the alleyway to his left, marching as quickly as he could, before stepping into a gap by a garage block and standing with his back against it.

He needed to compose himself. This wasn’t the way things got done.

They’d told him they’d look after him, but the truth was he hadn’t heard from them in a day or two. He’d gone into the Spitfire hoping he might be able to update someone — or that someone might update him — but it had been full of old boys talking about their medication and how the old butcher’s shop on the corner used to be miles better than the supermarket that sprung up in town and finished it off.

He felt he was getting in further over his head than he’d ever intended to. Events hadn’t quite gone to plan, but that meant there was no backing out now. Not now a woman was dead. His only option now was to see this out and and wait for it all to blow over. As much as he might have wanted it, there was no going back.

He knew how much money the bookies took, and that would definitely provide a pretty lucrative payday. Then again, he’d thought that about the petrol stations, but they still hadn’t been happy — even with forty-five grand. They wanted more. But there wasn’t more. At least not amongst the newsagents, coffee shops and tanning studios that lined the high street. But the bookies might just be his way out.

There was no way he could tell them he’d had enough. He knew that. All they needed to do was make a phone call and he’d be thrown under the bus.

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