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Chapters (77)
  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. 1
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  74. Acknowledgements
  75. Reading Group Questions
  76. Read More
  77. I

If Lana was watching and calculating, she would head for the far end of the other platform. As far as possible from the person most likely to intervene. He looked back at the train speeding along the opposite tracks. He didn’t have time to run to that side. The only way to the other platform was across the tracks and that would be stupid. There was no real reason to suspect that Lana and Jane were here.

And then he saw it. A flash of something at the far end of the opposite platform, exactly where he would jump from in Lana’s shoes. He began running, shouting to Bloom and the male officer, pointing to where the movement had been. Bloom ran, but the officer didn’t.

She can only stop one, Jameson thought.

He passed PC Fisher. ‘I saw something down there!’ he shouted. The train was getting closer and closer. He could see the purple and blue TransPennine livery on the front carriage, but he was pretty sure he had time.

He saw the movement again, a flash of red in between the trees. He heard Bloom shout. He couldn’t make out her words. He glanced back at the train one more time. He was nearly at the end of his platform now. Do it, he told himself.

Bloom shouted again. ‘Stay there! Stay there!’ Her voice was shrill.

She can only stop one, he repeated like a mantra. The train blew its horn and without hesitation Jameson launched himself across the track towards Bloom’s platform.

Lana Reid paced back and forth in the ankle-high grass. The last message had said they were on their way, but now she was in the middle of bloody nowhere with no signal, no idea what was going on and no clue how long she’d have to wait. All because she’d wanted Jane’s help. They told her she’d be disqualified – help wasn’t allowed – unless she did as she was told. She glanced back at the trees, at the figure huddled in the shadows. No going back now. She had to sit it out until the job was done. She’d enjoy seeing the expression on Marcus’s stupid fucking face.

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They were sitting side by side in the car in silence. Bloom had never shouted at Marcus before, but he’d really bloody scared her. As soon as he’d made it up from the tracks on to her platform, she’d lost it. She’d been screaming at him – that he was an idiot, what the hell was he thinking, did he have no respect for his own life?