Out Of Her Mind by Sally Hart

Author:Sally Hart [Sally Hart]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloodhound Books - crime, thrillers & mysteries
Published: 2023-09-12T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

PRESENT DAY

What was she doing to him?

Thwack.

She kept messing with his head. His increased agitation was because of her.

Thwack. Thump.

The force of the blows juddered up his arms; the punch bag shuddered with the onslaught.

It was always her. Back in the early days when he was fighting urges he didn’t understand, and now, when he had come to realise how much she meant to him.

Thwack. Thump.

He had once hated Sarah. Many of the details of the days following the Campbell killing were unclear, but he remembered that all he had thought about at the time was her. Wondering why she didn’t tell them it was him. The waiting intolerable, he’d nearly died of suspense.

The police did come knocking but, to his surprise, accepted his dad’s assurances he had stayed at home all evening – ill and unable to go round to his friend’s for tea.

He had later heard someone from inside prison had boasted about orchestrating the murders. Nevertheless, even when his dad had finally let him out of the house and the police and press had left the street, he’d obsessed about her.

He had worried incessantly about what plans she had in store for him, and if she had something other than justice on her mind. She never came back to school, but he became convinced she was behind every wary look and every whispered comment.

It had got so bad he’d planned to run away. Maybe he wouldn’t have become so angry with everyone if he had. The idea of suicide had also played on his mind. In the end, it was his dad’s fault he had chosen to stay.

The night he had got close to leaving was the first time Ben’s broken body had almost reached him in his nightmare. His shocked voice crying ‘of course it bloody hurts’ reverberated around him, even after he had woken up shaking. Pressing his face into his pillow, he had decided to end it all.

He had also dreamt about Molly. He’d squashed the slivers of thought that were daring to speculate on what words she would haunt him with. The fact he was curious had filled him with dread.

He was only a few steps from the front door when he’d heard clinking glass from the kitchen. Standing unseen in the dark, he had quietly watched as his father stood at the window. Silhouetted in the moonlight, the familiar frame that had once instilled fear in him, looked bent and beaten. His arms straddled the sink, and his head hung low as his shoulders jerked uncontrollably.

It was inconceivable that his dad was crying, and even when he heard the sobs, part of him had wondered whether it was a trick to keep him from leaving. He had stayed there while his father poured the contents of his drinks cabinet down the drain. He’d then returned to his bedroom.

It was the following morning that his dad had told him he was selling the house. He had spoken to his sister in the

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