On the run

Chapter 36

Steve was surprised when Yvonne summoned him to her office just 30 minutes before the enquiry was supposed to start. The Brigadier had arrived and had been given a pass and Jake was escorting him to the conference room, having been informed by Ian he was to be the one conducting the enquiry.

So as Steve arrived at Yvonne's office, he wondered if she was making a last-ditch attempt to find out where Rose was.

"I can't help you Yvonne, I swear I don't know where Rose is," he told her as he stood in front of her desk.

"I know where she is, no thanks to you. I thought you were getting close to her before she left?" Yvonne scoffed.

"So did I, she said when all this is over, well she may consider going out with me."

"Well it's a bit too late for that, she's holed up in Broadchurch with that detective."

"What detective? What are you talking about?"

Yvonne smiled. "The one from that case down there last year, the one who also just put another three killers away, well two killers and an accomplice. I'm still convinced he's my cousin, hiding himself away but that's beside the point. I've had men out looking for them, they left town, you didn't warn them did you?"

"What? Rose goes off without telling me where she's going and you think I warned her you were sending someone after her?"

"Why wouldn't you, if you think you stand a chance with her? Seems like Hardy's beaten you to it, she's bound to have taken up with him if he's hiding her."

Steve paced up and down. Rose had betrayed him telling him she'd think about going out with him and some detective had beaten him to her. He still had no actual proof, Yvonne could just be trying to get him worked up and she was doing a very good job so far but he wasn't going to show her.

"How do I know you're not just saying that Yvonne?"

"It's director, remember that. Well it will be in a few hours time when she fails to show at the enquiry to answer the accusations against her. You could still help me Steve, if you want to? How do you fancy Rose's old job?"

"Mickey's taken over."

"Don't worry about him, he's done here after today, one way or another and so is Jake. Tell me what you really know about the Tyler family Steve, don't you remember anything your father used to tell you?"

"Yvonne, I was away back then, I can't help you and I'm sorry, if Rose has really taken up with Hardy, it's my own fault for betraying her trust. I'll be out one way or another, if Mr Tyler gets back in, he won't forget what I did but I really hope you lose Yvonne, you destroyed more lives than the Cybermen did."

Yvonne just smiled. "Oh I don't know, those who followed and supported me will get their rewards and you can tell your friends they're out as well."

"What friends?"

"Don't deny you put them up to it?"

"I don't know what you're talking about, Director."

"Please yourself but you won't be around to see all the changes I have planned."

"Trust me, I don't want to be."

Once outside her office, Steve leaned against the wall, wondering what havoc she was going to cause if Pete Tyler was really out. Did he really care that she'd made up the tale about Rose? He decided to get the truth out of Jake, there wasn't much point in going back to the office except to collect his things. If it was true though, Hardy looked like the man in the videos, was Hardy the one who was disguised? Maybe he was Yvonne's cousin and that was why she was so mad he'd taken up with Rose but there were still a lot of unanswered questions he would never get to know the truth about.