Strangled Silence by Oisin McGann

Author:Oisin McGann [McGann, Oisin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9781407046099
Publisher: RHCP
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Nobody in the house had left the envelope in Amina's room. Each of them assumed one of the others had dropped it in and she let them go on thinking that. She resisted the urge to tell her parents her suspicions; like all of the leads she had gathered with Chi and Ivor for their story, there was no solid evidence to prove that somebody had come into the house during the night. They would say she was imagining things, or that she must have picked up the envelope inside the door and carried it up with the rest of her post. Or something like that.

It was hard to know which was scarier: the thought that an intruder had come into her room while she slept, or the fact that after all the time she had spent working on this story, there was still not a scrap of proof to show that anything was actually happening. It was as if the more she tried to get a grasp on what was going on, the more it slipped through her fingers. When she turned it all around in her head, she wasn't even sure what the story was. Ivor had his implanted memories and his nightmares and the disturbing Scalps people who were watching his every move. Chi had been investigating for a couple of years and had plenty of . . . material, but no sense of the true nature of the conspiracy – if that's what it even was. When she really thought about it, they had nothing tangible. Maybe they never would. Maybe there was no great conspiracy, just a bunch of mentally disturbed war veterans and the theories of some over-imaginative conspiracy nuts.

But then there was the card that had been left on her bedside table. Sitting down on her bed, she looked at it again.

Sending you our deepest condolences on the loss of your mother, Our thoughts are with you and your family at this difficult time.

A shiver ran through her and she crumpled up the funeral card, tossing it into her wastepaper basket. She needed to talk. Her first thought was to call Dani or one of the other girls; but it would be too hard to explain, to make them take it seriously. Then she considered Ivor, who would understand what was going through her mind at least, but . . . no. It would be a bit weird. And she was in danger of crying and she didn't want to seem weak to him; she didn't want to lose his respect. For a moment, she thought about calling Chi – and rejected that idea immediately.

Deciding she didn't want to be on her own, she went next door to Tariq's room.

The nihilistic phase he was currently exploring had taken its toll on his decor. The walls were painted a dark red, almost black, and were marked with scrawled graffiti in marker, chalk and even some scratched into the plaster with the point of a compass.

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