Beyond Death by Deb McEwan

Author:Deb McEwan [McEwan, Deb]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Women's Fiction, Contemporary Women, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Supernatural, Ghosts, Contemporary Fiction, Action & Adventure, Psychological, Romance, Suspense, Paranormal
Amazon: B00KYTR3A2
Publisher: Deb McEwan
Published: 2014-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

After witnessing the dilemma of the poor young girls Ron and Claire were even more determined to catch the thugs who had mugged Val. They felt as if they were on a quest to avenge all victims of crime and it was with this attitude that they arrived in the area where Val had been attacked. Two weeks of constant vigilance followed with zero results. They’d witnessed a few drunken brawls, an argument over a parking space that had turned violent, and an amorous couple who’d been arrested for performing an indecent act in public. Their patience was waning when they reluctantly decided that this would be the final weekend before taking a break from this part of London to see how their respective families and friends were getting on. Claire stopped daydreaming as she saw three hooded youths turn the corner onto the street. One lent against a wall and lit a cigarette and one of the others followed suit. The first took a knife out of his pocket and started pushing it into the concrete on the wall between the gaps. Claire nudged Ron but he’d already seen them and from the look on his face she knew that this was the gang that had attacked Val.

They watched for a while. A few men had passed the youths and the three hadn’t reacted. Claire rightly assumed that they were cowards, as bullies usually were. Two women walked down the street and the leader of the three nodded to his companions. A crowd of men appeared behind them all wearing t-shirts that bore comments about a certain Gary, a stag party Claire assumed, and the women passed without bother from the youths. Claire contemplated fate as the women would never know what the immediate future could have held for them had the stag party decided to go in a different direction. Ron brought her back to the present when the youths moved away from the street. The spirits followed.

By the end of that evening Ron and Claire were extremely pleased with themselves. Their patience had paid off and they had memorized the addresses of the three. Within a few days they knew their names, their habits, what they liked to eat and drink and some knowledge of their family members. Claire laughed sadly when Ron told her that the gang leader Mikey, was scared of rats and that his mother woke him up by taking him a cup of tea every morning.

‘How can he be so boyish at home and so cruel when he’s out with his friends?’ Neither had the answer and just wanted them all to be brought to justice quickly so that Val could move on with her life.

*****

Jim and Tony thought it would be easy to find their new sister without their father’s assistance but they were wrong. It hadn’t occurred to them that she would have a different surname and Graham had refused to share. They had checked all boarding schools in a 300-mile radius via Internet search engines.

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