Masters & Lovers Box Set Three

Chapter 36

A day comes and goes.

Another day arrives.

The phone doesn’t ring.

And another day.

What’s happening?

She reaches for the phone, then snatches her hand back.

They’ll call when they’re ready…

But they don’t.

The following morning, she watches the clock: eight am…

Eight-thirty…

Nine o’clock…

Nine-fifteen…

She picks up the phone again, dials out. “Hello, Hofferman and Partners? Is Mr Devlin there, please? It’s Mitch Kimberley.”

“I’m sorry, Miss Kimberley, Mr Devlin is not available….” The voice chokes, breaking into uncontrolled sobs. “He’s been murdered. Gunned down. His little girl is in hospital too.”

Mitch, heart hammering, “Theo. Let me talk to Theo Aldred.”

The sound muffles…

hand over

Aldred

throat. “When will

but through it, indistinctly, Mitch hears, “No, I’ve a wife and

voice repeats, “Mr Aldred is not

slams down

door. White-faced, she sprints to the elevator, bangs

she spins, looking

A newspaper… local…

The headline…

reads,

Romani Case outrage…

Prominent lawyer gunned down…

reported as murdered by a gunman or gunmen as yet unidentified in an incident in the grounds of the school attended by his nine-year-old daughter. The daughter herself is also reported as injured but recovering in hospital. Speculation is rife that

inside her. Her stomach rises. Pushing a fist to her mouth, she sets off at a run for the nearest bathroom, just reaching a

and vomits again. At length, scarlet-faced and sweating, Mitch leans

She’s on her own…

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James

Richard’s door. “I’m wrapping up for the day. Going for a drink with Michael and Charlotte. Want to

slaps a file down on his desk. Whatever he was reading, it drops with a finality that suggests he’s glad of an excuse to see

you would bring her. I’d like Charlotte to

I’ll get Ross to bring the car around. Meet you in the lobby

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