Money Can Kill by Wonny Lea

Author:Wonny Lea
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783754557
Publisher: Accent Press
Published: 2014-01-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Susan’s scent

Diane was wide awake and dismissed any thoughts of returning home and getting any sleep today. Her blood was still boiling as she headed off from Dan’s home. All she had asked for was a coffee and a lift back home but he had assumed she wanted him. She thought back to the strange look he had given her before he literally slammed the door in her face, and recalled a mixture of fear and hatred in his eyes. He had looked a bit like an animal caught in a trap and his reactions had been way out of proportion to anything she had said.

Her instinctive reaction was to hurl abuse back at him and now she began to wonder if Dan and her sister had parted company following some sort of row. Susan was prone to fits of temper if she didn’t get her own way, and if Dan had been the victim of one of those episodes perhaps he was getting some of his own back by being offensive to her sister.

No, it was more than that, and now she couldn’t get the look on his face and the haunted expression in his eyes out of her mind. She slowed down her walking pace and her imagination went into overdrive. It was possibly the effects of lack of sleep, a visit from the police and the taking away of her car, a visit from real-life detectives, and a slanging match with Dan. Whatever it was she suddenly got the idea that all was not well with her sister and decided to risk some more abuse and go back and ask him if he knew where Susan had gone.

She walked more slowly on the way back and tossed over in her mind the questions she wanted answered. When was the last time he was with Susan, and did she have any plans when he had last seen her? Diane had no way of knowing the extreme reaction that such questions could produce in Dan.

Her thoughts came to an abrupt end as she turned the corner into Dan’s street and saw him leaving his home. For some reason she couldn’t explain to herself, instead of rushing towards him she moved into the side of some garden hedges and watched him without his seeing her.

She giggled at her own actions and was feeling light-headed from the lack of sleep, but couldn’t shake off a strange feeling of unease as she saw Dan several times check that his front door was locked and look around anxiously before getting into his car. His behaviour didn’t seem quite right to her and her stomach was churning over as she watched him drive off slowly. She headed towards the door he had just locked.

As far as she knew this was where her sister had been living and she could still be inside. It had suddenly occurred to Diane that if Susan had taken her car yesterday then she would not want to be questioned about it.

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