Snow Kills by RC Bridgestock

Author:RC Bridgestock [Bridgestock, RC]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Mystery
Publisher: Caffeine Nights Publishing
Published: 2013-10-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

Dylan picked up his mobile. ‘It’s gonna be a late one love. One of the lads is coming back for tea, but don’t worry, I’ve warned him it’ll be fish and chips,’ he texted Jen.

Dylan’s office phone rang. Vicky walked in the office as he picked it up and she stood quietly waiting for him to finish.

‘So, Longbottom’s charged with attempted rape,’ he said, raising his eyes to look at Vicky from where he was seated. ‘I want to see the remand summary,’ he said before putting the phone down.

Dylan’s mobile phone beeped. He sat with it in his hand. ‘Longbottom expected to be going home,’ he said to Vicky, while reading the text. He closed his eyes momentarily and put the phone back down on his desk. ‘Someone else I’ve upset today,’ he said. ‘Better make that fish and chips and a big bunch of flowers.’

‘Donny Longbottom expected what?’ said Vicky.

‘He didn’t think he’d be staying in for Court.’

‘Wait ’til he knows that it’ll be recommended that he should be remanded to prison until his trial,’ she said.

‘Prison is a place he hasn’t been yet. I expect his defence team to be making an application for bail.’

Vicky sat down and took off her shoe. ‘My bloody feet are killing me,’ she said, rubbing the ball of her foot. ‘I don’t know how I ever walked the beat.’

‘You were younger and fitter then,’ he laughed.

‘Cheeky sod, I haven’t put on weight since I’ve been in CID.’

‘Yeah, whatever,’ he said, absentmindedly.

‘DI Turner about, Lisa?’ he called, looking past Vicky and out into the CID office.

‘No sir.’

‘Get hold of him will you and give him my home address. I’m going to have to call at Court and speak to the solicitor, so it’d be better for him to make his own way there tonight.’

‘Will do,’ she called back.

Vicky looked at him with a furrowed brow. ‘Oh, I’ve invited him round for tea. The others have gone back today and he was on his own. I felt bad I hadn’t even had a drink with them.’

‘And how does Jen feel about that? Ah, get it, the big bunch of flowers...’

‘Ah, she’ll be fine.’

Vicky shrugged. ‘She’s a better woman that me, coping with a teething child and entertaining your bloody cronies.’

‘That’s why I married her and not you Vicky,’ he said with a grin. ‘It’ll be right. He’s from down there isn’t he? They’ll have lots to talk about when she gets over herself. She’ll be pleased... she just doesn’t know it yet.’

‘Changing the subject, I’ll tell you what,’ Vicky said, quickly. ‘They don’t miss much in Merton village where I’ve just come from. I’ve been to a W.I. meeting at the Church Hall up Manchester Road today and those who knew Mrs Regan and her son from old, said they’ve been known as a strange pair for as long as any of them can remember. He used to push his mother about in a wheelchair and they’d swap their wigs years back.

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