Pushing Up Daisies
“They treated him like a pariah at the morning briefing, although he brightened when he was told that he was to accompany Toni. Toni had told him firmly that if Charles called again, Jake was to say he had never bedded Agatha and that they had all been joking at Charles’s expense. He was just about to leave with Toni where he got a peremptory call from the police to say he had to present himself at New Scotland Yard at two in the afternoon to be interviewed regarding the murder of Toby Cross. He caught the looks of relief as he made his excuses and left the office. He paused on the stairs and heard Simon saying loudly, “I wish the police would find out he did murder Toby and get the randy bastard out of our lives.”
You’d think I’d screwed Miss Marple, thought Jake furiously, instead of a sexy woman who is … what? Late forties? Somehow he must put things right. It wasn’t all about Toni. He loved the job and felt he could be good at it. He brightened. Maybe if he played the eager, willin...g-to-help role with the police, they might give him some titbits about the Bellington case.MoreLess
You’d think I’d screwed Miss Marple, thought Jake furiously, instead of a sexy woman who is … what? Late forties? Somehow he must put things right. It wasn’t all about Toni. He loved the job and felt he could be good at it. He brightened. Maybe if he played the eager, willin...g-to-help role with the police, they might give him some titbits about the Bellington case.MoreLess
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