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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

‘And Georgie was back in her cot, asleep.’

‘You saw she was asleep?’

‘Yeah, she was lying there, all quiet, so of course she was asleep.’

‘But you didn’t touch her?’

Kelly-Anne shook her head. ‘No. Connor came over to me and pushed me out the room – but only to make sure I didn’t wake her again,’ she added.

‘And where was Connor when you walked in?’

‘By the cot. He had his hands on Georgie, patting her.’

‘Patting her?’

‘Yeah, you know, to make her sleep.’

Nell wondered how hard you had to pat a baby in order to crush its ribs. ‘Was he patting her with the palm of his hand?’

Kelly-Anne shifted in her chair, pulled at a strand of hair that had come loose from her tight bun. ‘What? I don’t know, I can’t remember.’

‘Was his hand like this?’ Nell raised a palm. ‘Or was it like this?’ She made it into a fist.

Kelly-Anne opened her mouth to speak, then stopped.

‘His fist was patting the baby, wasn’t it? And he wasn’t doing it to make sure she went to sleep, he was making sure Georgie never got to bother him again, wasn’t he?’

Kelly-Anne didn’t speak, so Nell went in for the kill.

‘Did Connor O’Brian kill your baby?’

Kelly-Anne stared mutely at her.

‘And you saw him do it, but covered up for him – that’s right, isn’t it? You saw Connor hit Georgie with his fist and you couldn’t stop him, so rather than lose them both you chose to stick with him and lie for him, didn’t you?’ Nell felt her heart race and took a couple of deep breaths to steady it. She didn’t want the red mist coming down now, not when she was near the finishing post.

She stood. ‘Kelly-Anne, I’d like you to come to the station with me. Give a formal statement. Will you do that?’ She didn’t want to have to arrest the woman if she didn’t have to, but if Kelly-Anne wouldn’t come quietly she damn well would.

When Kelly-Anne didn’t move, Nell leaned down and gently took her arm.

‘I didn’t let him kill her,’ she finally said. ‘Honest I didn’t.’

Nell didn’t believe her and the defeat in Kelly-Anne’s tone told Nell she didn’t either. As Nell walked her to the door, she saw Paul, phone in hand, on the balcony that spanned the length of the block.

He was going to be insufferable when he found out Kelly-Anne’s account didn’t match Eve’s. But then that was the least of her worries. She needed to find Connor, see if his account matched Kelly-Anne’s, because someone was lying and despite Kelly-Anne’s convincing performance, Nell still wasn’t ready to believe it was Eve.

Nine

Bremer slammed the car door shut and looked at Carla.