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Chapters (81)
  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Dedication
  4. Prologue
  5. One
  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. Twenty-one
  26. Twenty-two
  27. Twenty-three
  28. Twenty-four
  29. Twenty-five
  30. Twenty-six
  31. Twenty-seven
  32. Twenty-eight
  33. Twenty-nine
  34. Thirty
  35. Thirty-one
  36. Thirty-two
  37. Thirty-three
  38. Thirty-four
  39. Thirty-five
  40. Thirty-six
  41. Thirty-seven
  42. Thirty-eight
  43. Thirty-nine
  44. Forty
  45. Forty-one
  46. Forty-two
  47. Forty-three
  48. Forty-four
  49. Forty-five
  50. Forty-six
  51. Forty-seven
  52. Forty-eight
  53. Forty-nine
  54. Fifty
  55. Fifty-one
  56. Fifty-two
  57. Fifty-three
  58. Fifty-four
  59. Fifty-five
  60. Fifty-six
  61. Fifty-seven
  62. Fifty-eight
  63. Fifty-nine
  64. Sixty
  65. Sixty-one
  66. Sixty-two
  67. Sixty-three
  68. Sixty-four
  69. Sixty-five
  70. Sixty-six
  71. Sixty-seven
  72. Epilogue
  73. Acknowledgments
  74. Read More
  75. Prologue
  76. One
  77. Two
  78. Three
  79. Four
  80. Follow Merilyn online
  81. Dedication

‘Where is she?’ I whisper.

‘With my mum. She’s caring for her and I promise you there’s not a thing my mum won’t do to help her and you.’

‘She is mine. Mine and Aoife’s,’ I say, firmly.

He nods.

‘Well, I’ve sort of got myself in a bit of a hole now anyway. They know there’s a baby and they’re looking for it. So I’ve got to keep her hidden for now, anyway.’ He suddenly looks lost and I think how handsome he is. How old can he be? Twenty, twenty-one? I can see the emotion has exhausted him – not just from finding me but from finding his mum too.

I want to tell him I’m grateful and I am, in part, but she is still proof of what I did, so I could never keep her. I could see her, though? Say goodbye properly. Tell her about her mum and send her out into the world with all the love I can give her.

‘Thank you,’ I say, kissing his cheek. ‘It is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me.’

Forty-nine

As Carla began dialling Hampshire Police she saw Gerry appear at the door with two takeout coffee cups in his hands. She hung up.

‘I thought I’d bring the coffee to you rather than make you come to it.’ He offered her a cup, then handed her a sugar.

‘Thanks.’

‘You OK?’

He sat opposite her, his back to the wall listing the people of interest in the O’Brian case. She glanced at Bremer’s office. She needed to get Gerry out of there.

‘Yeah, sorry, just busy.’

‘Any new developments?’

‘No, just plodding on, you know how it is.’

‘How was Eve in the interview?’ He took off the plastic lid and stirred in three sugars.

‘Prickly.’

Gerry laughed. ‘She’s mad at me because I gave you the letters.’

‘Why did you? Give them to me, I mean?’

Gerry kept stirring the coffee. ‘I thought it might help you in the O’Brian case, seeing as the author had mentioned it, but I suppose I also hoped you’d find out who was sending them.’ He looked at her.

‘We’re no further forward on that – sorry.’

‘That’s OK.’

‘Are you worried about them? About Eve?’

‘A bit. They’re unsettling. It’s making Eve distant and I’m not used to that.’ He smiled. ‘I always thought it might be nice to be a bit more independent of each other, but it turns out I quite like us being joined at the hip.’

Carla took a sip of her coffee. She should ask him about his phone call to Joanne. He could clear it up, tell her he was just warning her off, no crime in that. So why wasn’t she?

‘Did you find anything more on Mary? How she’s linked to the O’Brian case?’