To Find Him and Love Him Again (Volume 2): Book Ten (2) in the Tyack & Frayne Mystery Series by Harper Fox

Author:Harper Fox [Fox, Harper]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: FoxTales Publications
Published: 2020-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

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Nearby. Lee picked a cautious path down the alley. He couldn’t see Frayne now either, and he wondered if his sense of the man’s proximity had been a stray signal, a wish-fulfilment flicker in the air. Although why Lee should wish to track down his arresting officer in the pouring rain, he had less than no idea. He should be running after Cadan, who’d used up one of his numbered days to come to town and rescue him.

But Cadan had told him to do this. Cadan would be all right if Dave was with him. Not a real uncle, but when it came to cars, hotels and keeping a general eye on things, no-one better. Far more capable than Cadan’s own brother Jago, a stalwart figure in Lee’s childhood until the crushing depression and breakdown that had driven him out of the farmhouse, as if possessed by a fear that he would harm the niece and the nephew he adored. Dave had stepped into the breach. He’d watched Elowen’s strange gifts come and go, and Lee’s arrive and stay, with a passionate interest: Dave’s daughter, Alice, had them too. It had drawn the two families together. There was no-one Cadan trusted more. Nearby, Lee repeated in the rain-patter silence beneath the umbrella, then, Gideon, and he stepped over the last of the stinking bags and found him.

He was out of uniform. His T-shirt was soaked through and clinging to him: Lee noted the breadth of his shoulders with a pleasure that bypassed sexual response. A sense of recognising distant hills, a landscape on the way home. Frayne’s head was bowed, his knees drawn up, the rain making rivulets in the close-cut hair at his nape. A jacket was bundled on the cobbles beside him, but that too was soaked, as if he’d abandoned any hope of resisting the night.

Lee crouched in front of him. He held the umbrella to shield both of them, and after a moment Frayne looked up. “I thought the rain had stopped,” he said, distractedly, as if to himself. Then he focussed. “Oh. It’s you.”

“Yeah. Not on a jailbreak, don’t worry. They let me go.”

Frayne wiped a hand across his eyes. “Right,” he observed, and Lee heard infinite weariness in the word, a disbelief that he couldn’t find solitude even down a back lane full of garbage in the small hours of a city night. “Well, off you go, then. Do you need something? Tube fare?”

“No. I’m sorry about Lorna Kemp, that’s all. I tried to find her too.”

The dark eyes found a flash. “I’m off-duty, mate. Doesn’t mean you get to fuck with me.”

“Oh, Christ. I’m not. When Lorna vanished, the police HQ in Truro sent me along after a couple of weeks to see if I could help.” Briefly Lee wished he’d taken the folder from Cadan so he could spread out his credentials and take some of the baffled, goaded misery out of Frayne’s gaze. “I couldn’t do anything. I drew a complete blank.

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