Chapter 14: The Disappearance
Chapter 15: The Chat
Chapter 16: The Past
Chapter 17: The Visit
Chapter 18: The Favour
Chapter 19: The Appeal
Chapter 20: The Photos
Chapter 21: The List
Chapter 22: The Dream
Chapter 23: The Baby-Sitter
Chapter 24: The Drunk
Chapter 25: The Apology
Chapter 26: The Brush-Off
Chapter 27: The Lie
Chapter 28: The Secret
Chapter 29: The Accident
Chapter 30: The Search
Chapter 31: The Photo
Chapter 32: The Gift
Chapter 33: The Questions
Chapter 34: The Mistake
Chapter 35: The Update
Chapter 36: The Drone
Chapter 37: The Discovery
Chapter 38: The Aftershock
Chapter 39: The Gathering
Chapter 40: The Footage
Chapter 41: The Theory
Chapter 42: The House
Chapter 43: The Find
Chapter 44: The Darkness
Chapter 45: The Truth
Chapter 46: The Hypnosis
Chapter 47: The Ghost
Chapter 48: The Revelation
Chapter 49: The Trap
Chapter 50: The Forgiveness
Chapter 51: The Plan
Chapter 52: The Last Time
Chapter 53: The Funeral
The Epilogue
Acknowledgements
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1
THE BURIAL
I can still feel the mud embedded deep under my fingernails, taste the dirt on my lips. I can still see the eyes: shining like glass, open and staring, deep in their sockets. Dead.
In my mind I watch the earth piling onto the body, slowly blotting out what’s been done. Finally covering those eyes, so they can’t judge anymore.
I’m confident no trace can lead back to me.
Part of me feels regret; a sadness that it came to such a drastic act.
For the moment, my conscience is telling me I’m guilty.
But that can be buried too.
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THE SIGNS
Tuesday p.m.
The quiet murmurings that stopped as Louisa walked in the room, the closely guarded messages on his iPhone, the way he flitted about when Tiff was around – those were the little things that gave him away. He’d never been able to keep secrets. It’d been something Louisa had found endearing when she’d first met him on Millennium Eve at the party she shouldn’t have been at. But nineteen years later, his inability to hide anything despite believing he could – and that he was good at it – had
