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Mixed feelings
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2020-10-12 13:53:01He had been her great, unfulfilled childhood love, and although it had been more than ten years ago she had never been able to forget it, she had been too much in love with him and too badly he had hurt her.
They had lived next to each other, house to house in the small, sleepy Moonbrook. Luke was already very musical then, he had his own little band and was the star at their school. The girls had run after him in droves, and while Kim had always silently raved about him, all he had in mind was teasing and teasing her all the time. When he was alone with her, he had always been really nice to her, and in those moments she had often thought he'd like her a little too. When he kissed her there in the barn, Kim had believed for a moment that she had reached the goal of all her youthful desires and longings. But then he suddenly ripped her out of her dreams, laughed at and mocked her, and she had not forgiven him for that until today.
A few days after the incident in the barn, Kim's father had been transferred to the Newhaven police station, they had moved away and she had never seen Luke again afterwards. While she'd followed in her father's footsteps, graduated with honors, and then went to police academy, Luke had continued his singing career with sensational success. Although she couldn't stop reading about him in the newspapers or hearing one of his songs on the radio, she had forbidden herself to think about him again.
She had met Michael while she was still at the academy, and blindly and thoughtlessly entered into a marriage with him. It hadn't gone well for long, and Kim had divorced him shortly after they had both started serving with the Newhaven Police Department.
They had worked together for a long time, but Michael had resented the separation and started to rush against her at the colleagues. Without further ado, she applied for a transfer to the Special Investigation Commission, she had the appropriate training and had hoped to be able to start over there.
This wish seemed to have come true at first. She had actually been selected from a number of mostly male applicants, and she had enjoyed the job - until now.
Unhappily, she closed the lock on her old suitcase and checked her watch. It was time to leave, she had to be at the airport in half an hour.
A short time later she was sitting in the back seat of a taxi with her eyes closed, trying to brace herself for what was about to happen.
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Kim sat with mixed feelings in the taxi that took her from Sunville Airport to the address Charlie had given. After just under half an hour, the car stopped in front of the gate of a secluded property, which was surrounded by a high hedge. Kim paid and got out, took her suitcase from the back seat and the taxi drove away.
Nervously, she glanced through the bars, spied the whitewashed walls of a house that shimmered through the trees a little way from the driveway.
She took a deep breath and rang the intercom.
"Yes?" Said a man's voice after a while.
"Hello, my name is Tremaine, Mr. Summer is expecting me," she said, reckoning that she probably wouldn't be let in so easily.
"Please wait."
It took a while, then an older man shuffled up and eyed her suspiciously through the bars.
"Hello, I'm expected, I'm Mr. Summers' new assistant."
She handed the man the fax that Charlie had got her, and which was supposed to give her unhindered access.
The man studied the text carefully. "All right," he nodded, and opened the gate.
He took Kim's suitcase and motioned for her to follow. They walked down the driveway and then stood in front of the entrance to the house. The man laboriously unlocked the door, accompanied her inside and put her suitcase down.
"Have a nice evening then," he said, and before Kim could reply, he was gone.
She could still hear him carefully locking the front door again.
She stood helplessly in the entrance hall and looked around. A staircase led upstairs, there were several doors, from one of which there was muffled fragments of music. While she was still debating whether to just go in there, the door opened and a man came out.
He stared at her in surprise.
"Hi," Kim greeted timidly, "I'm expected, I'm ..."
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