Thrown Down: A Manchester Crime Story Featuring DSI Jeff Barton (Detective Superintendent Jeff Barton Book 6) by David Menon

Author:David Menon
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, International Mystery & Crime, Thriller & Suspense, Crime Fiction, Crime
Publisher: Silver Springs Press
Published: 2015-07-24T00:00:00+00:00

THROWN DOWN TEN

By the time Dennis returned home there were still several members of the press on the pavement in their temporary camp outside his house but thanks to the solitary police guard he managed to get his car straight up the driveway to the door. He paused for a moment before going into the house. He breathed in deep. He could hear the members of the press pack shouting out their questions to him. When he’d turned up at his son Shane’s place in central Melbourne, Shane had immediately called his mother Patricia to put her mind at rest. Shane, like his sister Phoebe and his brother Michael had wanted to know what the hell was going on with their parents and Phoebe and Michael had joined Dennis at Shane’s house. Dennis had told them all that he could and though they’d been shocked to the core by the revelations of their mother’s early life, all three of them had agreed that their parents had to sort things out somehow and try to stay together. They realised it was a hard ask of their father in particular and none of them had pulled any punches when they each spoke to their mother about it all. But they had all agreed that it was in the past and that though she should’ve told their father, she didn’t, and they could all understand her reasons for not having done so. But if they were going to stay together then Dennis needed certain things to happen and what he had to talk to Patricia about now could go one of two ways. He didn’t really know if he was prepared for either of the potential turnouts but somehow or other he had to make this effort to get past the current mess they were in.

He placed his key in the door and let himself in. The house felt normal. He could hear the washing machine in the utility room next to the kitchen in full throw at the spinning notch of a cycle. It looked like someone had been over the carpet too. The place smelt fresh and newly done over. Patricia had told him over the phone that their neighbour Molly had gone out and got some supplies in for her. It was almost as if they were besieged. Patricia couldn’t risk a run to the shops. What the hell was all this coming to? The press were coming after the kids now too. It was getting very, very bad. He was contemplating it all when Patricia appeared from their bedroom.

‘I’ve been worried sick about you’ said Patricia. She’d promised herself she wouldn’t cry when Dennis came back but she couldn’t help the quiver in her voice. ‘I imagined all kinds of things’.

Dennis held out his hand and Patricia came running and into his arms. This was second only to the moment when he asked her to marry him and she said yes.

‘I needed some time and space, Patty’ said Dennis as he held his wife tightly in his arms.

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