Whisky Chaser by David Cantrip

Author:David Cantrip [Cantrip, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Book Reality Experience
Published: 2023-10-06T16:00:00+00:00

Oh.

Wow.

CHAPTER 27

Gravel spat at the underside of the car as the wheels scrabbled at the corners, the open-topped Golf twisting through the dark shadows of the wooded valley side that hung over the narrow Devon lane, like a fish flitting through the dark patches of a sunlit riverbed.

Hamish blinked as the road curled out into the open glare of the sun, bright and blinding for five seconds. Then the lane curved under a solid canopy of branches at the wood’s edge, their green broken only by small scraps of light torn out of the sky and littered among the leaves.

Below and to the right, light flickered off the river, peat-brown water, oily black between the trees. Hamish’s lips tightened in regret; this was exactly the stretch of river he’d planned to fish today, the pools deeper and fuller than those he’d fished yesterday.

His mind lingered on the image of the thin, dark pencil shape of an underwater trout, gently undulating, lifting occasionally to swirl and pluck at a fly on the surface. Instead of a steering wheel his hands ached for the feel of the rod in his hand; his imagination sparkled with the lift of his heart as the fish took, line tightening and slicing through the water, until the quarry was finally subdued and guided over the net.

Damnation, he thought, as he throttled down a rare straight in the winding lane. The fishing season will be ending soon, this was probably his last visit to the river before it did.

Why couldn’t the girl have waited till Monday?

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