Murder on the Mainline: another Mike Claymore Mystery Chapter 22 - Sex Stories

Murder on the Mainline: another Mike Claymore Mystery Chapter 22

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO 7TH THURSDAY Mike sleeps in and wakes around nine. He comes downstairs in his robe and pours himself coffee. He looks outside and sees the station wagon is gone. He finishes his coffee and goes up to get dressed. Coming back down he looks out and there is still no car. He goes to the office and gets his briefcase, throws it in the car and heads for POCO. At twelve thirty he's waiting for Nina. She comes out and climbs into the car, out of the rain. He pulls away and says, "You look down today. Just want to go for lunch?" "No, please take me to the river. I need you to hold me and tell me everything will be alright." He respects her silence and drives without a word. When he has parked he slides over from under the wheel so he can hold her closer. She doesn't seek his lips so he just holds her. She whispers, "It's all going too fast. I gave my notice today." "I saw the 'Sold' sign on your house. When are you to be out?" "End of the month. They want to take possession by July second. Oh Mike, that only leaves me a couple of weeks." "Where are you going to stay until you go back east? You could stay at our place. We have the spare room." "Jeff is going down to Toronto next week to find us a place. They want him to start down there on the second of July." "You mean you will be moving in two weeks. Wow! That is fast." "We don't even have a moving company lined up." "Don't worry about that. CPX does cross country moving and I'll haul it for you, myself. I'd enjoy ...

... a long haul to Toronto. You just give me the date as soon as you can." "Oh, I will. That’s enough of this feeling sorry for myself. Why isn't this thing hard yet? Do you need some help? Oh oh, I spoke too soon. It's growing fast now. Kiss me!" When he drops her back at the detachment, Lindross is waiting for him. He gestures for Mike to come in. When they are seated in the Staff Sergeant's office, he says to Mike, "Have you been able to come up with anything new on the Hanson case?" "You're asking me, not telling me?" "Look Mike, I don't have the resources to keep track of you everyday. We have other priorities, other cases. If you've got anything then let's put our heads together and work on it." "What I've got is a lot of circumstantial evidence, hunches and denials. I've narrowed it down to two suspects and I think I know who did it. Of the other suspect, I'm not sure of her involvement. I do know you are going ahead with the trial of the wrong man." "We're going ahead with what we've got. Give us another case and we'll drop the least compelling. Who do you think did it and what's their motive?" "There you go, jumping the gun. I don't have a motive and probably won't until I confront him. Key elements, like physical evidence are missing. If I had a clear piece of physical evidence, I'd drop it on your desk and say, sic him. How many people you got working on this case now?" "What's that got to do with it? Quit stalling and tell me who you suspect and why?" "Hey, I'm not a ...