the Judas Gate (2010) by Higgins Jack - Sean Dillon

Author:Higgins, Jack - Sean Dillon [Dillon, Higgins, Jack - Sean]
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2011-01-14T19:14:31.296000+00:00

Justin Talbot was sitting in a wing-backed chair on a dais in his mother’s studio. He wore an open-necked black shirt and black velvet cord trousers, his arms folded, hair tousled. He’d been there an hour while his mother worked on a new portrait. She was standing at her easel, only a few feet away in her paint-stained smock, a palette in one hand, a brush in the other.

‘For God’s sake, how much longer? It’s been an hour already.’

‘It’s difficult, love,’ she said. ‘I can’t get exactly the expression I want.’

His mobile trembled in his breast pocket. He answered it and Kelly said, ‘Are you alone?’

‘Just a minute.’ Justin got up. ‘I’ve got to answer this.’

‘Really, Justin.’ She was annoyed.

The studio was above the east end of the stable. There was an exit door that opened on to a metal platform and stairs down to the cobbled yard. He closed the door behind him. Jean went to the sink in the corner and pretended to be cleaning brushes as she pushed the window open enough to hear him. Not that she learned much, except that he was angry.

Kelly, having told him everything Carson had to say, said, ‘It could be worse.’

‘Come on, Jack,’ Justin said. ‘The little bugger might decide to wake up at any time.’

‘So what do you suggest?’

‘Couldn’t your people get someone to pull the plug on him? That would take care of the whole damn business.’

‘Very risky. Let’s just wait and see for the moment.’

‘All right, but nothing’d better go wrong, you hear me?’ He switched off in exasperation.

Jean was back at her portrait in an instant. ‘Bad news, darling?’

‘No, just a problem with the farm. Look, can’t we call it a day? I’m tired.’

He was angry and mutinous. She laughed. ‘That’s the expression I’m after: it’s absolutely perfect. Just another half-hour, darling.’

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