Dead Flowers by Nicola Monaghan

Author:Nicola Monaghan [Monaghan, Nicola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: murder
ISBN: 9780857308023
Publisher: Verve Books
Published: 2019-07-18T04:00:00+00:00

FAULT

Kris’s house, West Bridgford, that evening

The sound of the TV had become a drone. Sian had been sitting with her leg elevated, flicking through Netflix for the last few hours. She’d tried walking without her crutches earlier. It had taken her a while to take her first step, focusing, trying to remember how walking worked. It had felt strange and her balance was off but she’d managed to take the four steps from the sofa to the armchair, then back again. Now, though, her foot and leg were very sore.

Elvis sat up in his basket, his ears straightening like antennae. Then he barked, and ran into the hallway. The next thing Kris was on his way in, back from work. He was fussing the dog, who was dancing around him, and Sian smiled. You can trust someone your dog likes.

‘Hey up, duckie,’ he said, making Sian smile. His London accent was even more obvious when he spoke ‘Nottinum’. He threw his coat and car keys on to the sofa. ‘You reet? Need owt?’ Still doing the accent.

‘You could fill up my water bottles,’ Sian said. He had set her up with lots of drinks and snacks before he’d left to get back to his shift. The awkward thing about being on crutches was carrying anything around the house. Sian could cook or make herself a drink, but she couldn’t carry anything to her chair, not even a glass of water, as she had no free hands when she was walking.

Kris dashed into the kitchen then was back with more water for Sian. ‘I’ll take Elvis out now, and then how’s about a bottle of wine and a takeaway?’

‘OK,’ Sian said. She didn’t do junk food very often but a bit of comfort was what was needed at a time like this. And wine would be nice too. Things had felt very tense with Kris after the police meeting that morning and then he’d had to go straight off back to work.

‘OK, then.’ Kris reached on to the shelf behind him and grabbed a pile of menus, handing them to Sian. ‘Peruse these and decide what you want.’ He reached for the dog’s lead and Elvis shot up from his basket, his tail going crazy as he paced around Kris’s legs. Kris clipped on the lead and then the two of them were gone, faster than Sian was expecting.

The house was very quiet. A feeling of melancholy settled in the centre of Sian’s stomach. She badly wanted to walk her own dog. Patience didn’t come naturally to her, but she was having to learn it, her body no longer under her control. She was fed up with the sound of the TV and flicked it off, reaching for the laptop instead. She opened it up and logged in, then googled the family tree website she’d read about earlier that day.

Genealogy websites were getting more interesting. You could send off your own DNA and find matches you didn’t know about. This was

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