The Kill by Evie Hunter

Author:Evie Hunter [Hunter, Evie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boldwood Books
Published: 2023-03-12T16:00:00+00:00

11

Ava thanked Gaynor for her time, promising to let her know if they discovered what had happened to the man she’d married: the father of her first born.

‘That must be so hard for her,’ she remarked, sighing.

‘What must be?’

‘Not knowing what happened to her husband.’

‘Ah, right.’

She looked grim, thoughtful, as they left the house. He paid the lads the rest of their protection money and climbed behind the wheel of his miraculously undamaged car. Ah, the power of economic forces, Ava thought with a wry smile.

She sensed that Seb’s mind was reeling. Clearly, Gaynor had told him something that he hadn’t expected to hear, or had hoped not to, and it had to do with the club that Gordon had worked at.

The Black Iris; the club managed by Ruby. Her name kept cropping up. It couldn’t be a coincidence. The revelation had literally knocked the wind out of Seb and so she asked no more questions, leaving him to concentrate on driving as he mulled the situation over and came to terms with it. He would tell her what he knew when he was ready.

He pulled into the car park of a local pub in a slightly better part of town and still without speaking, climbed from behind the wheel. Ava followed him and had to trot to keep pace as his long stride ate up the ground. His expression remained fixed in granite and Ava was very glad that she wasn’t on his shit list. This man, she sensed, understood the value of patience and thirsted for revenge. She had also noticed a marked increase in his determination to get answers since the email she’d received. As suspected, he’d told her that morning that its origins were untraceable. It had bounced around several servers in different countries before reaching her inbox. Despite that, she couldn’t blame Seb for wanting answers. In his situation, she would have to know why she’d been set up and fully intended to help him get to the truth.

Whoa! That determination brought her up short. Since when had his problems become her priority?

‘Slow down!’ she protested. ‘Where’s the fire?’

‘Sorry.’ He flashed an apologetic smile and moderated his pace.

Inside the half-full pub, he ordered a non-alcoholic beer for himself and a glass of wine for her.

‘You could have driven straight home and had a proper drink,’ she pointed out, once they’d found a quiet table close to the log fire where they could chat without much prospect of being overheard by anyone less discreet than the fat Labrador stretched full length in front of that blaze. Ava didn’t think Seb was known in this pub but still one or two heads had turned in his direction. It was obvious that he’d been recognised.

‘Less distractions here.’ He took a sip of his drink and winced. Ava laughed at his reaction and made a point of savouring her wine.

‘Witch!’ He laughed and some of the anger left his expression.

‘Okay, give,’ Ava said, when they’d worked halfway through their drinks and he hadn’t spoken another word.

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