‘Oh Hailey. Thank you! I can’t… I don’t know how…’ Sara swallowed, her throat too clogged with emotion to speak.

Hailey rubbed her shoulder. ‘I haven’t been fair on you, sis.’ She pressed her lips together, chin quivering, and Sara could see a sheen of tears in her eyes. She gave her a wobbly smile, then laughed. ‘We’re as bad as each other, aren’t we?’

Ezra’s hands clasped Sara’s cheeks and he planted a sloppy kiss on her nose. ‘I love you, Mummy.’

‘And I love you too, little smudge.’ She kissed him back. He wriggled to get down and she gave him another squeeze before finally releasing him.

‘Come on, let’s go and see the cow and the calf,’ he shouted as he ran up the path, swinging Pikachu by the ear.

Sara turned to her sister. ‘I don’t know what to say.’

Hailey linked arms with her as they followed Ezra up the path, her voice low and urgent as she talked. ‘Quick update. I went to see Matt, to try and talk to him like I promised. Must have arrived just after you’d been there, because Ezra was beside himself, and Matt hadn’t a clue what to do with him. He was just yelling at him to shut up. So I said I’d take him out to the playground and Matt seemed happy just to get him out of the house, because he really was screaming the place down. God knows what your neighbours think is going on.’

She took a deep breath and carried on, the words racing out of her. ‘I put Ezra in the car with my tablet to play with and told him we were going to see Mummy, so he was happy enough, but then I realised I’d left my bag in the house. Milly let me in. Matt was in his office in the garage by that time, and once I’d found my bag, I went to have a quick word with him – see if I could persuade him to listen to your side of the story. The door wasn’t quite closed – I think he’d just popped in to get something – so I took my chance and went in, thinking it was good to catch him on his own like that.’ Hailey’s hand tightened round Sara’s arm as she relived her experience. ‘Well, he went bloody ballistic when he saw me, bundled me right back outside again, pinned me against the wall. Said I’d no right barging in to his private workspace.’ She stopped walking, pulled Sara to a halt. ‘I saw what was on his computer screen, though. A video was playing. It wasn’t the same one, but it reminded me of that video of you.’

Sara gasped, shocked at her sister’s revelation. ‘You mean… you think he’s been looking at more of that stuff?’