Skypoint by Phil Ford

Author:Phil Ford
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction - Space Opera, Fiction - Science Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space Opera, Fiction, Science Fiction, Sagas, General, Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781846075759
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2008-12-03T10:53:54.761000+00:00

FIFTEEN

Things didn’t go well for Owen and Toshiko after he escorted her away from Besnik Lucca. She hadn’t reacted well to his half-whispered, half-snarled question and as the two of them adopted the positions that couples did when they started arguing at parties – with the minimum of animation and volume, like a couple of wooden figures on a German clock – Owen could still see they were drawing attention from their new neighbours. It crossed his mind that they probably made a pretty convincing married couple – but if they were newlyweds, they probably wouldn’t last long.

In the end they made their excuses and took the argument out into the passageway.

‘So tell me, what was all that about?’ he demanded.

‘What?’

‘You and Lucca.’

‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.’

‘Don’t lie to me, Tosh.’

And she looked at him, her eyes wide with surprise – and delight. ‘You’re jealous.’

He ignored her. ‘The man is dangerous.’ He was jealous, and she liked it.

‘Maybe I’m attracted to dangerous men,’ she said. After all, Owen had always been kind of dangerous. Maybe not the same way as Besnik Lucca, but he had never been a saint. It shocked her a little to think that may have been what got her on to him in the first place.

‘Why didn’t you tell me that you’d met him before?’

She’d had something like a smile on her face. Owen’s obvious jealousy had delighted her. Now his question wiped it off her face as surely as if he’d slapped her. She considered struggling out of his suspicions, faking complete bemusement, telling him he was imagining things. The trouble was, she was a little scared by the fact she had said nothing to him.

‘He found me in the basement earlier.’

‘Jesus Christ, Tosh!’

‘It’s all right. I told him I was looking for somewhere to smoke. I lied. He seemed to believe me.’

‘And you didn’t think it was worth telling me.’

‘We’re here to find an alien that can move through walls, not an Eastern European crime lord. He’s irrelevant.’

‘We don’t know that. For all we know, he could be what we’re looking for.’

Toshiko shook her head. ‘No. According to the police profile, Lucca has been living in the UK since 1998. If he was really something that had come through the Rift there’s no way he would have stayed off the Torchwood radar this long.’

Owen conceded that she had a point: if he had come through the Rift, Lucca wouldn’t be the first with a murderous track record, but he would be the first to set about building a crime empire, never mind a multi-million-pound property portfolio.

All the same, Owen couldn’t help worrying about her and, perhaps, for himself. He felt awkward, but he couldn’t stop the question slipping out. ‘You don’t fancy him, do you, Tosh?’

Toshiko glanced aside. She didn’t want to look at him when she lied, but the truth was there was something magnetic about Lucca. Something that was unquestionably dark but undeniably sexually exciting. She didn’t want to lie,

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