Love My Enemy by Kate Maclachlan

Author:Kate Maclachlan [Kate MacLachlan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781849398237
Publisher: Andersen Press

The party continued on the bus. Noisy groups were clustered on the top deck determined to enjoy every last minute of their Saturday night. They sang and shouted good naturedly and passed around cans of beer, making bawdy comments to groups of girls who flirted back. A ghetto blaster drowned out most of the conversation and four people shared a messy Chinese meal, rice flying off their plastic forks at every bend in the road. Zee would have been scared if she had been there with Tasha, game for every bloke on the bus. But safe with Conor, she felt fine.

At Hazel Grove they got off and walked the short distance home. The perfume of roses, sharper somehow in the darkness, floated up from the neat front gardens. Only a few lights were still on.

'They'll all be up by nine o'clock,' moaned Zee, 'in church by eleven and lunch at one. Then they'll spend the afternoon washing their cars. It's all so predictable round here – sometimes I want to explode!'

Conor laughed at her. 'Most folk like a bit of routine, you know.'

'Not me. A trip to the supermarket the highlight of the week? No thanks.'

Just then they came over the hill, within sight of the O'Keefes' house and they both stopped dead.

'No!' Panic fizzed through Zee's stomach, waves of it radiating out until her arms and legs were trembling too.

She remembered that feeling, that awful, uncontrollable shaking. It had happened to her once before; the night they killed her father.

'My God!' said Conor. 'Is that unpredictable enough for you?' But he was shocked too. He pulled her into the shadows and held her until her tremors stopped.

'It's Gary's work,' she whispered. 'What's he thinking of?'

Conor gave her a gentle push. 'Go home,' he whispered. 'Go by Tasha's in case anyone's watching.'

'What will you do?' she choked.

'Conor!' shouted an urgent voice. 'Get you in here!'

It was his father calling and all their lights were switched off.

'Not much I can do,' Con said bitterly. 'I'll have to go in. Will you be all right?'

'It's you I'm worried about.'

Zee pulled the collar of Tasha's jacket up around her ears and walked quickly on. Someone was watching her, she could feel it. Feel their eyes, hard as nails, hammering into her back.

She couldn't help looking up. Impulsively, unable to stop herself, she glanced in at the Gordons. Upstairs, the bathroom curtain slid back into place. But not before she had seen the pale glimmer of Des's face staring down at her. Zee gasped and hurried towards Tasha's. If she had seen Des Gordon, then Des had certainly seen her.

The graffiti was everywhere; red like blood, a spray can judging by the edges, all over the garden wall and on the footpath outside too.

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