Don't Let Me Go by Susan Lewis

Author:Susan Lewis [Lewis, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
ISBN: 9780345547736
Amazon: 034554773X
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2013-07-08T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

IF CHARLOTTE CLOSED her eyes and her ears she could imagine herself anywhere in the world: swimming in the cove at Te Puna; flying a kite on the cliffs with Chloe; producing a show with the Mulgrove players . . . As soon as she opened them there was no mistaking where she was. In a cell, with no way out. However, this particular cell wasn’t in the prison; it was beneath Dean Valley Crown Court.

It was Wednesday morning, just before midday. She’d been brought here in the Reliance van over an hour ago, though her hearing wasn’t due to start until three. The van couldn’t make more than one journey into town, she’d been told, so she’d have to go at its convenience, not her own.

She didn’t mind, anything to get out of Walworth, even if it meant being locked up somewhere else. At least Nola wasn’t here. Although Nola hadn’t actually said or done anything yet, she was always hanging around, watching her, as though letting her know that anything could happen at any time.

‘You will get through this,’ Kim had written in the letter she’d sent to the prison on Sunday. ‘I know it must seem tough right now, and hard to see a way past all the crap life’s throwing at you, but I promise you things are happening out here. You have some good people on your side, lots of influence being brought to bear in ways I won’t go into now, but we can discuss them as soon as I see you. I’m hoping to have some news on Chloe by then, because I know she’s always uppermost in your mind. Yours, Kim.’

She was right, Chloe was always there, filling her mind and her heart in ways she could never break free from, but nor did she want to. In fact, it was only thinking about Chloe, and absorbing herself in memories of Te Puna, that allowed her to escape the brutality of where she was. Even though her heart flooded with pain and longing each time she came back to the present, but while she was imagining the sound of Chloe’s laughter, the joy of her swimming on Diesel with Danni, the sheer pleasure of sharing in some new triumph, it was as though she was with her. For fleeting moments she could almost feel her sweet breath on her cheek, or the clasp of her hand, or the satisfying bulk of her weight in her arms. She could hear her chattering, singing, or simply breathing; see her little shoes next to the door, and taste the sticky kisses after a fluffy. Everything about her was so pure, so cleansing, that not even the ghastliness of the coarse and violent women around her, or the menace of predatory guards could reach her when she was with Chloe in her mind.

Kim had also enclosed a printout from a foreign website.

Is this true? Kim had asked. If so, do you have any idea who

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