Catch Your Death by Ravena Guron

Author:Ravena Guron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd

I found an exit from the walls that had been left open – probably the one Douglas had used to enter the passages – and was happily barrelling through along the corridors and internally screaming at the fact that Douglas had pulled a knife on me when I literally ran into Jayne and Lizzie.

“Where the hell were you?” I said, once I had got past the pain of colliding into them.

“No time to talk,” said Lizzie. “We were running from Mr Vanforte and Lottie—”

I wasn’t going to be outdone. “Yeah, well I was running from Douglas and he had a knife—”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” said a voice from behind me. I whirled around to find Douglas standing before me. He had silently come up in the darkness. “I found you in a passageway and you shrieked like you thought I was a ghost and ran.”

“I smacked you in the nuts with a lamp first,” I reminded him. He had lost the knife and was clutching my old torch.

“What is going on?” said another voice. Mr Vanforte and Lottie appeared from a different corridor. Mr Vanforte’s eyes flicked from Jayne to Lizzie to me.

“Why are the three of you running around screaming on the night of my wife’s death?” asked Mr Vanforte. “Have some compassion, for goodness’ sake.” But instead of sounding upset he was snappy.

“He was peeping in my bedroom,” I said, pointing at Douglas. “From one of those secret passages that are all over this house.”

“She’s lying,” said Douglas quickly. “I knew the second I saw her that she was a liar.” But his eye twitched slightly, his nostrils flaring – he was lying, and he…didn’t like having to do it. Did the guy with a knife have a conscience? Who cared – he had a knife.

“Oh, Dougie, you’re hurt,” said Lottie, squeezing past me and Jayne to get to Douglas. She looked at the bandage on his arm. Douglas jerked away from her, wincing as he did so, as if he didn’t want her to touch him. She stood for a second looking up at him, confusion on her face like she didn’t understand what had just happened.

“It’s interesting, isn’t it, that there are so many secret passages about this house,” said Mr Vanforte, ignoring Douglas. “I don’t know about many of them, but it appears others do. For example, I didn’t realize there was a passage leading past the room Lottie and I were in just now. I’d be very interested to hear what you think you heard, Jayne and Lizzie.”

Jayne and Lizzie weren’t stupid enough to reply, but I looked at them with wide eyes to let them know they absolutely had to tell me later.

Mr Vanforte must have caught my expression, because he tilted his head at me. “What were you saying, Devi? About Douglas?”

“I followed Douglas into the passageway after he spied on me,” I said. “And he showed up and attacked me with a knife.”

Douglas chortled, though the laugh didn’t reach his eyes.

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