NOT DEAD YET a gripping crime thriller you won’t want to put down by DAN LATUS

Author:DAN LATUS [LATUS, DAN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joffe Books crime thriller and mystery
Published: 2021-07-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Six

‘Someone’s coming!’ Emma called the next morning from the bedroom she was using.

I glanced out of the kitchen window and frowned. It wasn’t a vehicle I recognised.

‘Stay there!’ I told her. ‘And keep the shotgun handy. I don’t know who this is.’

The shotgun had been upstairs with her during the night, there if needed. There was no point having it in a locked cupboard downstairs if raiders were coming in through the front door.

Ah! At last, I thought with relief when I saw Malky clambering out of the Porsche SUV. I might have known it would be him, coming in a car like that. It was probably bulletproof, as well as everything else it would be.

I opened the front door and stood waiting for him. He looked grim-faced as he approached. I wondered if there was more trouble, trouble I didn’t even know about yet.

‘I’ve been trying to contact you,’ I told him.

‘I know. I’ve been busy.’

‘Too busy to answer my urgent calls?’

‘Yeah.’

He looked hard at me, challenging me to argue.

‘It was about Sonia, Malky. I said so in the first message I left.’

‘I know about Sonia.’

‘About what happened, I mean.’

‘I know what happened. I didn’t need to hear it from you, as well.’

I just sighed and shook my head, feeling it wouldn’t take much to have him fly off the handle in a towering rage that wouldn’t do either of us any good.

‘So what are we going to do about it?’ I asked him.

‘That’s not for you to worry about, Frank. I’ll get it sorted.’

I just stood looking at him for a moment, letting him know I wasn’t impressed. Then I said finally, ‘Come on in, Malky. Have a cup of coffee.’

‘I thought you’d never ask.’

Keeping the lid on my own temper, I ushered him inside. He settled himself down at the kitchen table while I busied myself making two mugs of coffee.

‘Instant suit you?’

‘Anything.’

He was looking around, taking everything in, although in truth there isn’t all that much to see. Perhaps he was marvelling at the simple life I lead, or perhaps he was thinking this wasn’t a place to impress potential clients.

‘You been here long?’ he asked when I brought the coffees over and sat down with him.

‘A few years now.’

‘It must suit you.’

‘It does.’

‘I’ve never had a cottage like this.’

‘There aren’t many of them, Malky. Not like this, there aren’t. Together with the one next door, it’s getting ready to fall off the edge of the cliff. The only question is whether the cottages go first or me and my neighbour.’

‘Who’s he?’

‘My neighbour? Jimmy Mack, a virtually retired fisherman. Know him?’

Malky shook his head. ‘You don’t feel like moving before either of those events occurs?’

‘Actually, no. It keeps me on edge, living here. That suits me. I can’t afford to get too complacent, the way I make my living.’

‘Same here,’ he said with a grunt of approval and a grudging smile. ‘Edge is good. Makes the blood flow faster.’

I felt we’d done enough small talk. It was time to get serious.

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