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Chapters (56)
  1. Books by Rona Halsall
  2. Dedication
  3. Prologue
  4. Chapter One
  5. Chapter Two
  6. Three weeks later
  7. Chapter Three
  8. Chapter Four
  9. Chapter Five
  10. Chapter Six
  11. Chapter Seven
  12. Chapter Eight
  13. Chapter Nine
  14. Chapter Ten
  15. Chapter Eleven
  16. Chapter Twelve
  17. Chapter Thirteen
  18. Chapter Fourteen
  19. Chapter Fifteen
  20. Chapter Sixteen
  21. Chapter Seventeen
  22. Chapter Eighteen
  23. Chapter Nineteen
  24. Chapter Twenty
  25. Chapter Twenty-One
  26. Chapter Twenty-Two
  27. Chapter Twenty-Three
  28. Chapter Twenty-Four
  29. Chapter Twenty-Five
  30. Chapter Twenty-Six
  31. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  32. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  33. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  34. Chapter Thirty
  35. Chapter Thirty-One
  36. Chapter Thirty-Two
  37. Chapter Thirty-Three
  38. Chapter Thirty-Four
  39. Chapter Thirty-Five
  40. Chapter Thirty-Six
  41. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  42. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  43. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  44. Chapter Forty
  45. Ten days later
  46. Chapter Forty-One
  47. Seven months later
  48. Love You Gone
  49. Hear More from Rona
  50. A Letter from Rona
  51. Books by Rona Halsall
  52. Her Mother’s Lies
  53. The Honeymoon
  54. Keep You Safe
  55. Acknowledgements
  56. *

Sara stood up. ‘That’s it. We’re going to get them.’

Hailey followed her. They were almost at her car when she stopped. ‘I just had a thought. Fiona set off not long before Matt did a runner, didn’t she?’

‘That’s right.’

‘They might not even be at Center Parcs yet.’ Her fingers flew over the screen of her phone. ‘Let’s find out where they are. We don’t know if Fiona was going straight there. She might have stopped on the way somewhere. We don’t want to go bombing up there if we can pick them up closer to home.’ She pressed send.

They waited, Hailey checking her screen every few seconds for a reply, but nothing came. After a couple of minutes, they looked at each other, and Sara knew from the expression in Hailey’s eyes that she was worried.

‘They might just be in a blank zone.’

‘What if Fiona’s taken Sophia’s phone off her?’ Amelia had stopped using her mobile in recent weeks, something Sara now realised was probably due to the shower incident. ‘Or the battery has gone flat?’

‘Maybe wait a few more minutes.’

‘We can wait at the police station. Honestly, Hailey. It’s the right thing to do.’ Sara’s stomach clenched at the thought, but the prospect that her children might be in danger was far more important than anything else.

Chapter Thirty-Seven

They had only been travelling a couple of minutes and were at a T-junction heading into the middle of town when a familiar car went past, the driver a woman with short blonde hair, wearing large sunglasses.

Sara did a double-take. ‘Bloody hell, Hailey.’ She pointed at the black 4x4 heading down the road. ‘It’s her. It’s Fiona. What the hell’s she doing in Ilkley?’ And where are the girls? Her heart skipped as Hailey sped away from the junction after Fiona’s car, which started winding up towards the moors. She was confused now. ‘Where on earth is she going?’ Fiona lived on the other side of town, so she wasn’t going home.

‘We’ll just have to follow and find out.’

They were directly behind her, Hailey keeping a bit of distance so she wouldn’t be too obvious. But a few moments later, Fiona sped up, zooming well ahead of them.

‘Crap. I think she’s seen us.’ Hailey sat forward, hunched over the steering wheel as if she was pushing the car up the hill. ‘Come on, car, please go faster.’ But Fiona was pulling away, heading up to the top of the moors.

Sara pointed. ‘Look, she’s going into the car park.’ They watched her swing the 4x4 into a parking spot, jump out and run off up the track towards the quarry. Moments later, Hailey screeched to a halt and they clambered out and started running after her.