Rainbow snippets - Old Sins

[charlie_cochrane]

Old Sins is out in a month! Here's a smidge: “Mum was asking again,” Robin said when he’d finished the last bit of bacon. Great minds were clearly thinking alike again. “Asking about what?” Robin gently tapped Adam’s arm with the back of his hand. “Don’t pretend you don’t know. Have we set a date? Will she need her passport? Should she buy a winter hat or a spring one?” “What did you tell her?” “That what with the demands of school life and the unpredictable villains of Abbotston, it wasn’t easy to fix a weekend.” All of which was true, but wouldn’t have mollified Mrs. Bright one bit. “And what did she say in response?” Robin shrugged. “That she understood the predicament we were in, which I suspect was a lie because she then pointed out that other policemen and teachers manage to tie the knot.” That was also true, although their case was complicated by having feet in both camps. The real reason they were making no progress was the simple, prosaic one that they were struggling to sort out what type of do they wanted and who they’d invite. They’d both have preferred something small, discreet, classy, and a guest list limited to their mothers, an aunt or two, and Campbell. But was that going to cause ructions among family and friends? Should they invite their cousins, and how could they not include some of their friends and colleagues? And if they invited only one or two each, whose nose would be put out of joint that they’d not been included? More excerpts at the Rainbow Snippets group.