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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

These photos are getting twenty to thirty likes. Low numbers but then again Lucy Swallow doesn’t have that many followers.

‘So should we leave them a review?’ I say.

‘Wait until after we’ve seen the state of the house,’ he responds. He changes the subject. ‘How was work?’

‘Good,’ I say, trying to smile. Trying to block out the rising siren of panic. ‘Actually I’m a bit worried about Scotty.’

‘What do you mean?’

‘I mean he was off at work, I thought maybe fatigued but now I’m certain he was taking something.’

‘What, like smoking pot before a shift?’

‘Yeah maybe, or painkillers. We had a call the other day, he misread it as a stroke. If Scotty wasn’t high I feel like we could have saved him. I mean the chances go from zero to maybe one percent, but that’s still a chance.’

He closes his eyes for a moment, gives a slow nod. ‘Mmm, sounds like he needs to pull his head in.’

‘I could report him. I should report him. I made it clear that I knew what was going on and he’s been better these last two shifts since then. It’s always awkward with guys like that. He’s more senior. But if it happens again, I’ll have to report him. Otherwise I’m culpable too.’

He turns back to his laptop. ‘Not your job to babysit him if he’s getting high before work. Maybe just keep an eye on him to see if it happens again. That’s odd,’ he says abruptly, checking his phone.

‘What?’ I say, moving towards him.

‘The last guests used almost no power. Just a little spike in the morning by the looks of it.’ He’s on the power app.

‘That is odd,’ I say, distracted.

‘Maybe they ate out, used the candles when they were home,’ he says but I’m barely listening.

Changing my phone number wasn’t enough, I need to do something to block Daniel permanently. Cain looks up at me now, really looks at me. ‘If you’re worried about it, maybe ask to change partners?’

I realise I’m frowning. I feel sick, lightheaded. ‘It’ll be fine,’ I say. But it’s not. I finally have what I’ve wanted all these years, I’m finally pregnant. But there’s a photo of me and Daniel together out there. Everything is wrong.

THIRTEEN

WE’RE ALMOST AT the house now. Axel was over last night, he and Cain had a couple of beers and graduated to whiskies at around 9 pm. The old stories came out, while they watched the rugby. Cain took some waking this morning, then was grumpy for not getting away earlier.

‘Why do you want to stay so bad? There’s supposed to be a big storm tonight,’ he says to me now.