After I've Gone by Linda Green

Author:Linda Green [Green, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2017-06-14T23:00:00+00:00

PRIVATE MESSAGE

Sadie Ward

01/10/2017 11:22pm

I met her yesterday – Lee’s ex-girlfriend. Emma, her name is. Emma McKinley. Although you probably knew that. She’s an actress. Not a dead famous one, she does soaps and extra parts on TV and touring theatre stuff. She was in Emmerdale for a while a few years ago. Not that either of us ever watched it. I probably shouldn’t have met her, I know that. But I tracked her down online and got in touch after the police told me she’d given her statement.

She’s very pretty. Or rather, she used to be. I googled her to see what she looked like when she was in Emmerdale. She looks very different now, of course. It’s like someone sucked the air out of her, she’s that gaunt. Not surprising really, when you consider what happened. He beat her, Jess. He beat her really badly. Not at the beginning. She said he was all sweetness and light at the beginning. But later, when they moved in together. It started with a slap. Just one slap. And he was dead sorry afterwards and promised her it would never happen again. But, of course, it did. Time and time again. And every time, she let him off because he was so upset by what he’d done. She thought she could help him to stop, to become a better person.

Until they went to Venice on holiday. He broke her jaw, Jess. He broke her fucking jaw. She never reported it – she was too embarrassed in case it ended up in the papers. But she did at least dump him afterwards. She moved back to London. That’s where she lives now. And she didn’t have any further contact with him. She didn’t know he’d married or that you’d died until she came back to Leeds to visit and a friend told her. That’s when she decided to go to the police. She’s got photos, Jess. Photos of what he did to her. And records of her treatment in the hospital in Italy. There was a witness too, at the hotel where they were staying. A maid who came in just afterwards and saw the blood and everything.

And all the time she was telling me this, all I could think of was what he must have done to you. The times you didn’t show up when you were supposed to and you said it was because you’d had a bad night with H. The time when you explained away a bruise as an accident. I thought about them all, Jess, and I cried big fat tears for you. For what he did to you and the way you must have suffered.

But we are not going to let him get away with it, Jess. Emma is prepared to go to court if necessary and so am I. The truth will come out. I just wish it had been in time to save you. X

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