Her Dark Heart: A totally gripping crime thriller (Detective Gina Harte Book 5) by Carla Kovach

Author:Carla Kovach [Kovach, Carla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786818829
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2019-11-18T18:30:00+00:00

Thirty-Eight

I stand across the street where the path cuts through to the shops, just outside the ring of orange light casting down on me from the streetlamp, just close enough to observe you without anyone seeing me. I’ve missed you, Stephanie. I tried to dismantle your front door lock and that set off your alarm – dammit. I should’ve hurried away when your lamp flickered on but I need to see you. I need to work out how to get to you. You’re not like the others.

You open your bedroom window and gaze out, your hair falling over your shoulders, just like it always has done. You haven’t changed one bit. I remember the smell of roses from your shampoo, the smell of vodka on your breath – I smile as I reminisce back to that summer, twenty years ago. Your alarm wails louder and snaps me out of it.

‘Shut that bloody thing up!’ The miserable man across the road slams his window before you have the chance to reply. He doesn’t think for one minute you might actually have an intruder, no one ever does. Alarms are seen as a nuisance which is why I’m not worried. You run from the window and seconds later, the alarm stops.

A grin spreads across my face as I hear you jiggling your keys at the front door. You open it, knees shaking as you step out barefooted onto the doormat, with only your satin night slip to keep you warm. I can sense the goosebumps rising on your arms and legs and a pleasant shiver runs along the nape of my neck.

Hugging yourself, you take two steps forward as you gaze up and down, flinching as you step on a stone. As you turn back, you begin rubbing the lock. You think it’s bulbous nose, your colleague, but when the morning comes, you will know it’s me. After that, I will see your fear – the fear that your past will be revealed for the world to know. I grip the precious photo in my pocket, the one that will ensure you’ll never say a word.

I laugh as you trip over your coconut doormat before slamming the door. The road is silent without a soul around. Curtains all closed and the wind howls away. No one is listening as I step onto the road. No one is watching as I stand, back against the wall, under your open window while you hurry to lean out for one last look. No one else will smell the scent of my vape as I blow the sickly smell upwards while I creep under the passageway that runs alongside your house. Revenge is sweet but I don’t want to achieve it too quickly, I want to savour every moment.

I button up my mac, ready to leave the passageway and work on phase three. The alarm on your house was a mere setback, but that’s all it was. Pulling the red stringy sweet from my pocket, I silently feed it through your letterbox, smiling as it drops onto the carpet.

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