(2013) Four Widows by Helen MacArthur

Author:Helen MacArthur [MacArthur, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, UK
Publisher: eBook Media
Published: 2013-01-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty Six

The Official Widow

I regularly had the shakes and was desperately dehydrated. I could drink litres of water and still crave more. At first I was convinced it was the alcohol but soon realised panic exacerbated the problem.

McCarthy quenched this thirst. He had a hectic schedule but found time to answer questions. I decoded the email a hundred times in my head, picking the words apart as though each letter were a chromosome with substantial power to shape the future: building blocks to the truth. Stumbling blocks.

I wanted theories and McCarthy obliged. We would go over and over the same stuff. “I’m guessing whoever sent this email knew your husband on a personal level, otherwise he’d have addressed him as Dr Harrison Warner.”

“You think?”

McCarthy shrugged. “He’s the doc–that’s how he is introduced when you meet him at hospital as a patient.”

I thought about Vivienne Roberts. Harrison had stopped playing doctor.

“No more emails?”

“I think everything’s been said, don’t you?”

“Like what?”

“This person wanted him to suffer more: death was too quick. Your husband has hurt someone and it goes deep.”

I felt the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. “Justice is done?” I whispered.

“Straightforward revenge attack.”

I didn’t follow. “No one wants to take the credit for it? Expose what Harrison has done?”

He looked at me levelly; an unshakeable stare that could power saw through secrets and lies. “I think he or she is protecting someone.”

Blustering, I tried to keep the questions coming but McCarthy was done.

“Anything else that wasn’t in the email?” I asked before the conversation shut down.

“He wasn’t thrown from the car. He was dragged.”

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