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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

‘It was supposed to be me. I was supposed to do it. Killing changes you and you pulling the trigger was the last thing I wanted.’

I remember Cain’s shock that night when he realised I had killed Daniel. We had gone off script; I was never supposed to escape from the fireplace, and I wouldn’t have if someone hadn’t made that comment and helped me. Cain was supposed to save me.

‘The hard part was setting up the cameras, capturing the footage in a way that exonerated us of wrongdoing. It had to show that we acted out of self-defence. So it showed me stumbling to the bedroom, but it didn’t show me taking the ladder and sneaking back out through the laundry while you were in the shower. It didn’t show me meeting him at the road with a shotgun and forcing him up that same ladder and into the bedroom.’ He clears his throat. ‘I stripped him and told him if I heard him or if he moved, I would kill him. And he was good, silent as a mouse. I locked him in that great big chest, then later the cameras showed Daniel dragging a body in a sheet to the spare room. But they didn’t show me forcing clothes back on him, pushing him out into the hallway. The hole in the wall and the smashed window let the rain in, filling up the chest, rinsing the floor and washing away any evidence that went against what the cameras showed. It was easy enough to open up the old gash above my eye on the door knob. Everything went to plan, except I was the one who was supposed to escape, rush out with my hands still bound and push him down the stairs. The camera would show me desperate to save you.’

My head feels light, filled with helium. My body is trembling. He did all this to get rid of Daniel. The viewers. Maybe this was his way of punishing me too. ‘But you didn’t save me.’

‘The princess saved herself,’ he says, a wry smile. ‘But you wouldn’t accept that he acted alone. You needed to keep pushing and probing. You didn’t trust me.’

I was right about seeing someone else – there was Daniel, and the second person I thought I saw was Cain. Just a glimpse of him behind Daniel. I can feel hot tears pricking my eyes. ‘I killed him. He was innocent.’