Liar by K.L. Slater

Author:K.L. Slater [Slater, K.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786812100
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2017-06-15T23:00:00+00:00

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Amber

It never failed to amaze Amber that the people who thought they were so clever in deceiving others never once stopped to think that two could play a dirty game.

Like the tenants upstairs at her old flat, whom she’d watched tumble out and down the street to the bar. She’d loaded the last three boxes into the boot of the car, taken the final meter readings ready to email them to the management company and then pulled on rubber gloves and taken a plastic bag into the overgrown back garden.

Several of the tenants had dogs, and the garden was basically the mutts’ toilet. She’d retched and heaved while she collected as much stinking shit as she’d physically been able to carry, and then she’d taken it upstairs and systematically shoved the whole fucking lot through the letter box of the inconsiderate tenants’ flat.

And when that little deed had been done, she turned the bag inside out and smeared what was left in it over the door, taking special care to fully coat the handle. She half wished she was sticking around a bit longer so she could witness the cries of outrage and revulsion when they returned.

She’d ditched the shitty rubber gloves at the door, popped back into her own flat to thoroughly wash her hands and she was off. She’d escaped at last.

She smiled at the satisfying memory.

This morning, she’d parked well down the road, away from the house. Judi was at the surgery and that daft old fart Henry was on one of his fishing trips. At least she laughingly gathered that that was what he liked to call his little jaunts away.

She’d had Henry and Judi’s door key duplicated some weeks ago when Ben had been on a school trip with his class and had left the car and his keys at home. His parents’ door key was on there so Amber had simply whizzed down to the local Tesco store and had one quietly cut at the key kiosk there.

Now she walked up the drive and knocked at the door to make sure nobody was home before sliding the key into the lock and letting herself in. The nice thing about the house being detached and screened from next door with conifers was that it made life a whole lot easier for intruders like herself.

Inside, the smell of wax polish and then an after-scent of potpourri that whiffed of cloves and oranges assailed her nostrils, and she sneezed. The sound echoed around the hallway and she froze for a few seconds, imagining what excuse she’d make if Henry or Judi appeared at the top of the stairs.

But of course she needn’t have worried. She was alone … to do completely as she wished.

She climbed the stairs and walked straight to David’s room. She opened the door and closed it behind her.

And then she began.

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