Reggie Dornan, her husband’s so-called best friend. Deep down she knew he was Lenny’s biggest secret. There was something inside her that made her feel sure her son had told the truth. Whoever the culprit was she had to ask herself: had they actually done her a favour? Had they saved her from having to acknowledge that her husband had been living a lie all these years and that her marriage was nothing but a fucking sham? She felt sick again. She wondered if her life would ever again take on some kind of normality.

The policewoman held her as she cried, and she could feel genuine sympathy from this strange girl who made a career out of locking up other people. But she held on, and she cried bitter tears as she tried with all her heart not to feel anything but relief.

When Jack arrived she had never been so happy to see someone in her whole life. He took her home to her family, and he was so gentle with her that she felt sorry for the man who had looked on her husband as a son. Jack was devastated too and she clung to him for dear life, knowing that she would always quell any rumours that might begin to circulate about her husband’s true nature. Her job now was clear: she had to protect her sons and she would do it even if it was the last thing she ever did on this earth.

Chapter Seventy-Eight

Sharon Scott was back at home, sitting in her kitchen nursing a glass of wine, still in a state of shock. Whoever had attacked Lenny had done a good job. His face and body had been destroyed. A ‘sustained attack’, they were calling it, meaning that he had been tortured too. Completely wiped out.

Sharon had answered all the questions from the police in the same way. She knew nothing of her husband’s business dealings and, no, she didn’t know anyone who might want to hurt him. He had been a very popular man. The police seemed to want to believe it was a mugging that had gone dangerously wrong. Like anyone could have mugged Lenny Scott and got away with it! It was fucking laughable, as her father pointed out over and over again, until she had screamed at him to shut the fuck up.