Standstill by Jack Probyn

Author:Jack Probyn [Probyn, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-31T04:00:00+00:00

29

Poor Behaviour

August 1, 15:17

The District Line train pulled into Upminster station. Jake and Lucy spilled out of the doors and onto the platform. The train journey had given them ample opportunity to get to know one another.

Lucy was in her thirties though she didn’t like to admit it. She had been engaged once, but her fiancée had ended the relationship seventy-two hours before their wedding day. He had been sleeping around. Jake was silenced and appalled when she told him. In the nine years he’d been married to Elizabeth, he had always failed to see a reason to cheat. There was just no humanity behind it. Elizabeth was the best thing to happen to him in his entire life, and he wasn’t going to throw that away with one stupid mistake. Sadly, he knew there were men that would.

Law was a big passion of Lucy’s. She had graduated with first-class honours in criminal law and had landed herself a job as a solicitor in a local firm in the city. After accepting the position, she had moved away from her rural house in the countryside and into London. She enjoyed her job, but it wasn’t what she wanted to do in life. Her biggest passion was policing, and growing up, she had always wanted to be a police officer. So much so, in fact, that after school she had applied for her local constabulary. But when it came round to the interview process, she had bailed out due to fearing failure and had taken the legal route instead. She liked the idea of enforcing the law in a different way.

Another passion of hers was computer forensics, a topic she minored in at university. In her spare time, whenever she wasn’t busy preparing legal cases, she was often contracted by certain companies to hack into their computer network or business websites. If she was successful, then she would expose weaknesses in the company’s online defences and offer solutions to improve it. That had helped her earn extra pocket money.

Jake had opened up to Lucy on the journey, too. He had told her about his home and work life, and how his family were the best thing to happen to him. Speaking to Lucy so openly seemed bizarre to him, yet so comfortable. As if they’d known each other for years and caught each in other in the street for a catch up. The precariousness and danger of their position encouraged instant bonding and familiarity.

Lucy and Jake walked to the edge of the train platform. It was busier than Jake had expected, which made him feel even more nervous than he already was. The more civilians there were, the more casualties Jake and the emergency services would have to deal with - and they were already at full stretch. He just hoped his risk with the mobile phone had gone under the radar.

‘We’ll wait here,’ Jake told Lucy as they came to a stop. ‘It’s likely we’re going to move again. We just don’t know where.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.