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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

Nell sat back in her chair. Well, that wasn’t going to be a coincidence, was it? So it was probably safe to conclude that a woman called Mary had written to Eve and Kelly-Anne. That linked Connor’s case to the letter writer, which she supposed was something, but Mary had been writing to Eve long before his case came along, so even though there was a link, what did it mean?

Frustrated, she listened as Paul took over.

‘What did the note say?’ he asked.

‘She said that the woman with the white hair in our flat wasn’t to be trusted and she’d say I killed Georgie when I didn’t.’

Nell was starting to worry that was a pretty accurate statement of the facts.

‘Anything else?’

Kelly-Anne frowned. ‘I can’t remember. I was dead upset when I got it.’ She sounded apologetic. ‘I was thinking about Georgie and all, and I didn’t understand why someone would send it, so I just put it in a drawer.’

‘So you kept it?’

‘Yeah, it’s in the flat,’

Nell leaned forward. ‘We’ll need to get that.’

Kelly-Anne nodded. ‘But it’s proof, yeah, that I didn’t kill Georgie?’

Nell didn’t think she’d ever heard less proof in her life, but she let it go. ‘Thank you, Kelly-Anne, you’ve been really helpful.’ She pushed her chair back.

‘So I can go home now?’

The hope in Kelly-Anne’s eyes almost made Nell wince. She never could decide which was worse – dealing with people so clever they ran rings round you, or with people so stupid they ran rings round themselves.

‘Not yet.’ She tried to sound gentle. ‘We’ll need to ask you a few more questions when we’ve seen the note.’ And ignoring Kelly-Anne’s disappointment, she nodded to Paul it was time to leave.

‘Poor kid,’ Paul muttered as they walked back to the office.

‘That “kid” watched as her boyfriend killed their baby.’

‘We don’t know that yet.’

‘No, we know it, we just haven’t got proof. Yet.’

‘Still got to feel a bit sorry for her.’

‘No, I really don’t have to at all.’

Back in the office, Nell went over to the wipe board. ‘Right,’ she said, then wrote Mary, Eve and Joanne on the board under the names of Kelly-Anne and O’Brian.

‘We’ve got Joanne accused of writing letters to Eve.’ She drew a line between their names. ‘And Mary has written to Eve.’ She drew another line. ‘Are two people writing to Eve, and if so, what links them?’ She stood back to look at the board. ‘Is the answer on here or haven’t we found it yet?’

‘You haven’t put Gloria on there.’