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Chapters (54)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. PROLOGUE
  5. PART ONE
  6. ONE
  7. TWO
  8. THREE
  9. FOUR
  10. DEADLY SAS RAID IN AFGHANISTAN UNDER SCRUTINY
  11. FIVE
  12. SIX
  13. SEVEN
  14. EIGHT
  15. NINE
  16. TEN
  17. ELEVEN
  18. TWELVE
  19. THIRTEEN
  20. FOURTEEN
  21. FIFTEEN
  22. SIXTEEN
  23. SEVENTEEN
  24. EIGHTEEN
  25. NINETEEN
  26. TWENTY
  27. PART TWO
  28. TWENTY-ONE
  29. TWENTY-TWO
  30. TWENTY-THREE
  31. TWENTY-FOUR
  32. TWENTY-FIVE
  33. TWENTY-SIX
  34. TWENTY-SEVEN
  35. TWENTY-EIGHT
  36. TWENTY-NINE
  37. DANIEL MOORE: ‘A SINGLE BLOKE, HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, A BIT OF A DUNCE BUT WITH A GOOD HEART,’ BEST FRIEND SAYS.
  38. THIRTY
  39. THIRTY-ONE
  40. THIRTY-TWO
  41. THIRTY-THREE
  42. THIRTY-FOUR
  43. THIRTY-FIVE
  44. BREAKING: POLICE CONFIRM DANIEL MOORE ACTED ALONE
  45. THIRTY-SIX
  46. THIRTY-SEVEN
  47. THIRTY-EIGHT
  48. THIRTY-NINE
  49. SECOND ARREST MADE IN WESTAY HIDDEN CAMERAS CASE
  50. EPILOGUE
  51. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  52. Discover More
  53. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  54. Also by J. P. Pomare

Cain nods. He’s holding his Pounamu greenstone in his hand, squeezing it on the end of the cord.

‘In fact, it would be best if you could both get to the police station in the morning. I’m sure you will have more to add to your statements, assuming you’re okay to leave hospital. If you think of anything else that would aid the investigation, get in touch sooner.’

‘Thanks,’ I say. ‘We will.’

‘The spare room is made up,’ Wiremu calls from the kitchen. ‘You’re more than welcome to stay for as long as you need.’

‘No,’ I say. ‘I don’t want to be out here tonight. Cain’s going to the hospital so I’ll go with him.’

Cain lies down on the stretcher and they let me ride in the back of the ambulance with him. As we start out along the road, I glance through the rear window and see all the floodlights at the house, a pink dawn creasing the horizon across the lake, bringing a deep-sea green out of the surrounding flora. A new day is beginning. There are three police cars, one still twirling those blue and red lights, strobing through the trees. They’re all down there, police swarming the house. I wonder if they know that people are watching them, somewhere out in the world. Anonymous peeping Toms. Then that word comes back to me, what Daniel had said. Peephole.

Daniel. There’s a new guilt. It has replaced that rotten feeling that came over me whenever I thought about cheating on Cain.

•

At the hospital, all the fear and anxiety has flooded from me and in its place is something cold and dark. I killed a man. Realising it, thinking the words to myself, it’s an almost violent bodily response. I’m light-headed. Someone guides me to a seat and I lower myself gently upon it. A glass of water is pushed into my hand. ‘She’s in shock.’

‘Give her space to breathe.’

I look up into the eyes of a nurse.

‘I killed someone,’ I say. The words do nothing to assuage the heat of the guilt. They intensify it. The rain comes down harder outside, rinsing the world. The black hole grows within and yet I repeat myself, ‘I killed him.’ And now I will never be the same.

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