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Back The Game
Chapters (68)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. NOW
  4. One
  5. BEFORE
  6. Two
  7. Three
  8. Four
  9. Five
  10. Six
  11. Seven
  12. Eight
  13. Nine
  14. Ten
  15. Eleven
  16. Twelve
  17. Thirteen
  18. Fourteen
  19. Fifteen
  20. Sixteen
  21. Seventeen
  22. Eighteen
  23. Nineteen
  24. Twenty
  25. NOW
  26. Twenty-One
  27. BEFORE
  28. Twenty-Two
  29. Twenty-Three
  30. Twenty-Four
  31. Twenty-Five
  32. Twenty-Six
  33. Twenty-Seven
  34. Twenty-Eight
  35. Twenty-Nine
  36. Thirty
  37. Thirty-One
  38. Thirty-Two
  39. Thirty-three
  40. Thirty-Four
  41. Thirty-Five
  42. Thirty-Six
  43. Thirty-Seven
  44. Thirty-Eight
  45. NOW
  46. Thirty-Nine
  47. BEFORE
  48. Forty
  49. Forty-One
  50. Forty-Two
  51. Forty-three
  52. Forty-Four
  53. Forty-Five
  54. Forty-Six
  55. Forty-Seven
  56. Forty-Eight
  57. Forty-Nine
  58. Fifty
  59. Fifty-One
  60. NOW
  61. Fifty-Two
  62. Fifty-Three
  63. Fifty-Four
  64. Fifty-Five
  65. AFTER
  66. Fifty-Six
  67. Acknowledgements
  68. About the Author

‘That seems a big decision to make. There wasn’t more to it than that?’

Mark held his gaze until the man finally looked away.

‘What really happened?’ Mark said, when it became clear Kevin wasn’t going to continue. ‘I’m not buying that you would make a decision like that lightly.’

‘It became… It became clear that it wasn’t helping anyone. They turned it into something else. A revenge mission, of sorts. The sessions became more heated, I was told. Less structured. The people running them lost control, I guess. I got reports back that some of them had been found stalking people, getting into trouble. A lot of different things. So I got out of it before it went even further south. My name might be on there, but I don’t have anything to do with it now. As I said, as far as I know, it’s not live. There’s no money to pay anyone to work for them since I walked away from it, so I wouldn’t think it’s still running. All those requests would just disappear.’

‘And none of these people have an outlet anymore,’ Mark said. He could see it still pained the man that it had been a failure. He wasn’t sure why it had been, however. ‘It must have been pretty bad for you to have walked away.’

‘I trusted the wrong people,’ Kevin replied, shaking his head and pinching his nose at the bridge. ‘What I’ve learned in being involved with this sort of thing, with people from all kinds of different backgrounds and experiences, is that there are some who have been bullied who will take any opportunity of power to then become what they had once despised. Give them control and it’s like a drug. They just want more and more.’

‘According to Emily Burns’s family, it’s possible she may have been in touch with someone on The Huddle. Before she went missing. Who could that have been?’

‘I have no idea.’

‘I’ll need the names of those who ran these sessions. And who had access to the website. Just to eliminate them from our enquiries.’

‘You think this girl disappearing might have had something to do with the website?’

Mark blew out a breath. ‘I hope not, as it seems to have been set up with good intentions. I’m just looking into every possible avenue at this time.’

‘Was she being bullied?’

‘From the information we have, it looks as if this was something she may have experienced in the past. Possibly still. As I said, it’s about looking into everything we can.’