Dare To Dream: Book One in the Michael Manners Dream Sequence by David Thomas

Author:David Thomas [Thomas, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 36

‘Damn, are you a sight for sore eyes?’

Rosie started out of her half sleep, unfurling from the chair and rushing to the side of the bed. Russell’s eyes were open, his head turned towards her, as far as the brace around his neck would allow. His voice was a rasping croak.

‘Oh god Russ,’ Rosie gasped ‘I thought you’d left me.’ She peppered his face with kisses and leaned her body gently against his. She had sat by his side almost continuously since arriving at the hospital thirty-six hours previously, even nursing Donny at the hospital when her mother brought him in.

Russell spoke again, in urgent tones. ‘Are you OK? Donny? Oh God, Michael didn’t…?’

‘Attack us? No. We’re both OK.’ She answered hurriedly to reassure her husband.

‘I know he told us, warned us; but God if you’d seen the look on his face Rose.’ Russell’s hand suddenly squeezed his wife’s with a strength that was painful, a strength she should have been relieved to find that he still possessed. She leaned away from his body to look at his face.

‘I can’t believe that he wasn’t in control.’ Russell let go off her hand and slumped down on the bed, surrendering back into sleep, the little energy he had left completely depleted.

‘Detective West?’

‘Yes, this is Steve West. To whom am I speaking?’

‘Rosie McCloud, Russell McCloud’s wife. Your officer, Constable Johnson, he left your card when he visited the ward earlier today. He said to call to let you know when Russell regained consciousness. Well, he has – or at least had, briefly, he’s sleeping again now.’ Rosie stood sentry outside her husband’s room, glancing back at the door as she spoke on her mobile phone to DS West.

‘That is a tremendous relief, thank you for letting me know.’ West sighed loudly, glad that this case was not a homicide.

‘Yes, it is a relief, and that’s an understatement.’ She fumbled her words and wiped her eyes with her free hand as tears threatened to start falling.

‘I presume you’ve not yet spoken about what happened?’ West, sitting in his car, took out a notepad, grabbing a pen from his passenger seat.

Rosie took a deep breath, considering the lie she’d told immediately after the police had arrived; that Michael and Russell had been wrestling, a game, before they’d both fallen down the stairs. If she told the truth now, she’d be betraying her oldest friend, but if she didn’t, if she perpetuated the lie, then what? Well first, if Russell was right and Michael was not asleep, if he was in fact in control when he’d attacked, then surely, she had a duty to tell the detective, in case Michael did something again? Even if he was asleep surely, she needed to tell the truth? Second, she knew that the police must already be suspicious of the injuries. The marks on Russell’s throat were hardly evidence of anything but strangulation, the examining doctor had said as much when they’d arrived at the hospital in the early hours of Thursday.

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