Snatched: A psychological thriller that will keep you up all night by Gillian Jackson

Author:Gillian Jackson [Jackson, Gillian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sapere Books
Published: 2019-09-27T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Things were going badly for Richard. The police were asking some very awkward questions and he was deceiving them about the kidnappers. He wondered, not for the first time, whether he should admit to still having the mobile phone. He’d even thought about confiding in Martha, two heads and all that, but now his mother-in-law had turned up, he decided not to.

DI Radford had discovered that he didn’t do any pro bono work in London and he could no longer fudge the issue. He was sure the detective had guessed why he’d lied and he would now have to come clean about where he spent his time. He’d have to tell them about Serena.

Martha couldn’t find out the full extent of how badly he’d let her down. The fact that he’d taken the money from their joint account now made him burn with shame. He couldn’t imagine how he would feel if she’d been the one to have been so duplicitous.

Richard tried to remember how his affair with Serena began. How does any romantic liaison start; a look, a smile, an unspoken connection? She had captivated him from the first time he saw her, sitting at the bar of a hotel he occasionally went to for a drink after work and was quite simply the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen. Serena seemed to be the perfect package, long blonde hair, bright blue eyes and a figure most women would envy. When she smiled encouragingly at Richard, he couldn’t believe she would be interested in him, but she was.

Accepting his offer to buy her a drink, she seemed to hang on his every word, eyes wide at his stories of life as a barrister, as if he was the most entertaining and interesting man in the world. Serena knew he was married from the beginning, but it didn’t stop her from flirting, which at first seemed harmless enough. Richard was flattered, Martha hardly noticed him in that way anymore. He couldn’t remember the last time they had made love; it simply wasn’t on the agenda of their busy lives. Perhaps that was why Serena had succeeded with him. She looked upon him as a man, a desirable one at that and he’d been flattered, going along with the flirting until it became more, much more.

In the early days of their relationship Serena seemed mysterious, exciting even, revealing very little of her own life, past or present, which aroused Richard’s curiosity. The enigma, however, only added to the attraction. It was as if she had materialised from nowhere, coming into his life and adding the excitement and passion which he didn’t even know was missing.

At first she expected very little from him but he wanted to spoil her, to buy her jewellery and clothes. She squealed her thanks for such gifts, like a child at Christmas, and Richard found this endearing. The gifts became regular, but he could afford it and she was always keen to show her appreciation.

Richard couldn’t quite remember how the subject of buying an apartment came about.

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