Be Careful What You Wish For

Vivien Brown

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Be Careful What You Wish For

VIVIEN BROWN

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Source ISBN: 9780008374174

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Version: 2020-08-17

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Prologue

Chapter 1: Prue

Chapter 2: Madi

Chapter 3

Chapter 4: Prue

Chapter 5: Madi

Chapter 6

Chapter 7: Prue

Chapter 8: Madi

Chapter 9: Prue

Chapter 10

Chapter 11: Madi

Chapter 12: Prue

Chapter 13

Chapter 14: Madi

Chapter 15

Chapter 16: Prue

Chapter 17: Madi

Chapter 18: Prue

Chapter 19

Chapter 20: Madi

Chapter 21: Prue

Chapter 22: Madi

Chapter 23

Chapter 24: Prue

Chapter 25: Madi

Chapter 26: Prue

Chapter 27

Chapter 28: Madi

Chapter 29: Prue

Chapter 30: Madi

Chapter 31: Prue

Chapter 32

Chapter 33: Madi

Chapter 34

Chapter 35: Prue

Chapter 36: Madi

Chapter 37: Prue

Chapter 38: Madi

Chapter 39

Chapter 40: Prue

Chapter 41: Madi

Chapter 42

Chapter 43: Prue

Chapter 44: Madi

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Also by Vivien Brown

About the Publisher

To my dad, Wilfred Alexander Smith

1920–1993

Loving father, loyal friend

Hard to believe, but you would have been 100 this year

Prologue

I close the door behind me and lean against it, taking deep breaths while I wait for my heart to slow down, my hands to stop shaking, and my head to tell me what to do next.

I wish it was all just some sick dream, revenge acting itself out as it has so often done before, satisfyingly, harmlessly, as I sleep. But I know this was no dream. This is real. Horribly, frighteningly real.

I didn’t mean to do it. I really didn’t. I only meant to unnerve her, unsettle her, to drip some small fluttering of fear into her life. It was a game. That’s all. A game where one player doesn’t even know the other exists. A game only one player can win. But I never intended things to go this far. I am not a violent person. It was just a reaction, a spur of the moment thing. I had no idea anybody was there.