Wasted Years
“He still couldn’t decide if he were being taken for a ride.
“Anything to go on, Graham?” Resnick said, pausing at the sergeant’s desk.
Millington scowled. “Sometimes reckon we’d be as well off with crystal balls.”
Across the room a phone rang and Kevin Naylor picked it up. “CID, DC Naylor speaking.”
Resnick remembered there was a call of his own he wanted to make; he went into his office and closed the door. Down through the window, he could see the track-suited figure of Jack Skelton jogging p...ast the lock-up garages below the main road.
“Yes, of course I know who it is,” Naylor was saying. With a half-guilty glance across the room, he angled his chair towards the wall.
“I called before,” Lorna Solomon said. “Left messages. You never phoned back.”
“I know. I’m sorry. Things have been busy.”
“I thought …” she hesitated.
“What?”
“You were avoiding me.”
“Like I said, it’s been busy.”
There was an uneasy silence between them and Kevin sensed rather than heard her breathing at the other end of the phone.MoreLess
“Anything to go on, Graham?” Resnick said, pausing at the sergeant’s desk.
Millington scowled. “Sometimes reckon we’d be as well off with crystal balls.”
Across the room a phone rang and Kevin Naylor picked it up. “CID, DC Naylor speaking.”
Resnick remembered there was a call of his own he wanted to make; he went into his office and closed the door. Down through the window, he could see the track-suited figure of Jack Skelton jogging p...ast the lock-up garages below the main road.
“Yes, of course I know who it is,” Naylor was saying. With a half-guilty glance across the room, he angled his chair towards the wall.
“I called before,” Lorna Solomon said. “Left messages. You never phoned back.”
“I know. I’m sorry. Things have been busy.”
“I thought …” she hesitated.
“What?”
“You were avoiding me.”
“Like I said, it’s been busy.”
There was an uneasy silence between them and Kevin sensed rather than heard her breathing at the other end of the phone.MoreLess
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