Authors: E.G. Rodford
The Bursar's Wife (34 page)
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As if to give the finger to my cynicism Quintin Boyd was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, although his team of lawyers are planning an appeal. His stiletto-wielding sidekick Kevin was convicted as an accessory. Mark the driver was acquitted, since he wasn’t present when it happened.
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I’ve not heard from Sylvia, or Lucy for that matter. I looked Sylvia up once, to see that she was a trustee on the board of a high profile national charity based in Oxford. I have stopped looking at other women online, as it doesn’t really do anything for me anymore, that sort of thing. I’ll always associate it with Sylvia’s tape, and the sort of people who watched it. Although to be honest, it’s easy for me to take this moral stance since I’m having regular sex. When that stops my standards will no doubt slip. As for the dating website, I let my account gather cobwebs, much like my father’s shed, and eventually Sandra gave up bothering me about it.
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I still haven’t come clean to Sandra about Lucy, but I did get it off my chest. I ended up telling Cathy about it one Sunday morning, as she lay next to me in my parents’ bed. She laughed hysterically, which is exactly the response I was looking for.
GEORGE KOCHARYAN WILL RETURN IN
MARCH 2017
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I
’
M GRATEFUL TO ANGUS, PAM, JONATHON, JOHN AND MARY
, all of whom helped by being generous with their professional know-how.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
E.G. RODFORD IS THE CRIME-WRITING PSEUDONYM OF AN
award-winning author living in Cambridge, England. Rodford writes about the seedier side of the city where PI George Kocharyan is usually to be found.
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