She pulled the blankets from the floor and, even though they were dirty, she used them to cover herself. She felt the sting of tears again and for all her certainty that her father would come for her, she began to wonder if he was even looking for her yet. Why hadn’t he found her already? He was the hardest man in fucking Europe! Why had she been taken? This couldn’t be a kidnapping – if it was, surely she would have been forced to make a tape of the kidnapper’s demands? Or talk to her father to prove she was still alive? Her father would insist on that. He wouldn’t pay a penny until he was assured she was still in one piece. So what the fuck was this about? She still had her very expensive Rolex, and it gave her the time and the date. It was five days since she had been abducted, and the man who was keeping her chained up didn’t seem to be bothered about anything. There was no urgency about him, or his movements – in fact, he was a bit too laid back. The food, the light and the clean clothes, though, made her think that maybe he wasn’t going to leave her to starve to death. Maybe he did have a hidden agenda. But what that might be, she couldn’t even hazard a guess.

Chapter One Hundred and Six

Chapter One Hundred
and Six

Dana O’Carroll was in her late thirties and she knew she wasn’t a beauty. She was a heavyset woman with a flat face, heavy lips, and deep brown eyes. She had worked for the Flynns since three months before Jake had been born, employed to look after the child and also Josephine. She was a state-registered nurse, and she had taken this place knowing that she would stay for the duration – the lure of a newborn baby had been too much for her to resist. Jake Flynn was the child she would never have. She absolutely adored him.

Although Dana had ostensibly been brought in to look after Jake, she had known within the first five minutes that Josephine Flynn was seriously in need of psychiatric help. Dana thought the world of Josephine, but there was no getting away from the fact that she was becoming odder by the day, and that was why she was paid so much. She had to watch her like a hawk.