Trust and Betrayal by Adam Carter

Author:Adam Carter [Carter, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-20T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

The Stag and Hounds was just around the corner from where they were parked, and Thompson arrived before Arcady. There was every chance he wouldn’t show at all, that he was even now making a run for it in the opposite direction, and she could hardly have blamed him. The sad truth to the matter however was that if they had any chance of finding the real killers they would have to start trusting one another.

The pub was neither small nor large, and wasn’t badly decorated either. There was a long bar which snaked around the place so that you were never very far from it, and her policewoman’s instinct plotted the most direct course to the toilets and rear exit without her even thinking about it. There were several groups of people currently in the pub, although none of them looked suspicious or particularly threatening; two old men drinking pints beside the fruit machine, a young couple tucked away in a corner, a family close to the front door. In this last group there was a guy who had probably turned eighteen that day, and he was celebrating with a whole pint of his own sitting there in front of him. A man who was presumably his father sat opposite, laughing about something, and Thompson felt a sudden pang of regret in her life.

She had spent her eighteenth birthday completely off her face with alcohol, licking whipped cream off the naked bodies of two prostitutes Dan had hired. She had been incredibly sick the following day: Thompson was lactose intolerant, but then Dan couldn’t have known that. Her father hadn’t even realised she was eighteen until she was two months into it.

She realised she had been standing by the door for too long and moved farther into the pub. No cold stares greeted her, although the two old men by the fruit machine were indeed eyeing her strangely. She guessed they were in here every day and were wondering why they had never seen her before. She bought a pint of Guinness from the barman, who was an affable sort with a sharp wit, and headed alone to the back where she took a seat. Someone had been kind enough to leave a newspaper behind and she leafed through it, searching first for any news about Arcady.

The paper didn’t reveal much, just that there had been a triple murder and that there were no suspects as yet. The paper didn’t say there weren’t any suspects, it just said the police were investigating a line of enquiry, but Thompson knew precisely what that meant. There was a brief mention of a woman fleeing the scene, that she had been shot as she got into a car, but nothing else. Thompson suddenly became self-conscious of her shoulder wound and cast her eyes about the pub once more. No one was paying her any attention, and she was no longer in direct line of sight of the two old men; but

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