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Back When I Lost You
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

‘I don’t have time to worry what it is you’re sorry for, but never say sorry. Not even if a judge from the last Court of Appeal tells you to, got it?’ He started the engine and moved the car towards the junction of the cul-de-sac.

‘Got it,’ she said. But she didn’t regret it and she’d do it again if the same situation arose.

‘Connor’s gone AWOL.’

Carla turned to Bremer, who kept his eyes on the traffic as he pulled across the main road, away from Oxford, towards HQ.

‘The call I got was from Nell. They’ve taken Kelly-Anne in but we need you to find possible addresses for him.’

It was suddenly obvious why Bremer was so tense. And Nell must be kicking herself for not bringing them in the night before.

‘I’ll get on it as soon as we are back. How long’s he been missing?’

‘About an hour and a half.’

‘Shit.’

‘Precisely.’ Bremer joined the dual carriageway and pressed on the accelerator. ‘He could have got anywhere in that time.’

Connor didn’t strike Carla as the adventurous sort, more a creature of habit, but when someone’s back was against the wall you never could tell where they’d go.

‘Did she say why?’

‘Why he did a bunk? Seems Eve was wrong. Kelly-Anne saw him kill the baby.’

Carla stared out of the window. She itched to be back at her desk. If Bremer hadn’t dragged her out of the office she probably would have found Connor by now. Instead she had to wait another ten minutes for HQ to come into view and before Bremer had even switched off the engine Carla had unbuckled her seat belt and had her hand on the door.

Paul and Nell were seated at opposite ends of the office, as if the heat made sitting too close unbearable.

‘What’s happened to the air con?’ Bremer pulled off his jacket and laid it carefully over the back of a chair.

‘Broken.’ Nell fanned herself with her notebook as if to emphasise the point. She looked irritated, but then so would Carla if she’d just lost the main suspect in a murder inquiry.

Bremer approached the wipe board, pen poised. ‘Right – Connor. How long’s he been gone for?’

‘Almost two hours,’ Nell replied.

Carla started up her computer, half listening to the rest of the team behind her.

‘Kelly-Anne’s not saying much,’ Nell said, ‘but I get the impression he stays local when he does a bunk.’

‘Yeah, but this is the first time he’s done it off the back of a kid being killed,’ Paul pointed out.

Carla wanted to point out this was getting them nowhere, wanted to tell them to leave her alone to find addresses they could go and knock up, but she didn’t need to.