Sweet William by Iain Maitland

Author:Iain Maitland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Saraband
Published: 2017-09-18T04:00:00+00:00

7.31pm SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER

The young woman stepped back when she saw him, his face bruised and battered.

“Rick, Rick, where the hell is he? Where’s Will?”

The young man stepped forward, moving to put his arms around his wife.

She shrugged him off, twisting towards the policewoman and men standing close by them in the police station reception.

“You said you had Will, that you’d made an arrest. Where is he? Where’s Will?”

The police officers looked at each other, waiting for one of them to speak.

“He took him off me, Nat, took Will away,” answered the young man, his voice shaking. “Down at the beach. He hit me, look, here . . . took me by surprise. I couldn’t stop him. He’s out there somewhere. I keep telling them but they won’t listen.”

She spun back towards the police, focusing on the policewoman who seemed to be in charge.

“I saw him, running away with Will. Along the parade. I chased him, but it was too crowded. I told you this. I thought he’d gone up the hill down by the bakers, out of town. You said . . .” She turned towards the policeman next to her, “ . . .he’d been arrested. This is Rick, my husband, Will’s dad . . . You’ve not got him, have you? He’s still out there somewhere with Will.”

The young woman and the young man looked at each other in despair.

They embraced.

“He won’t hurt him, whatever he does,” murmured the young man. “He’s his son . . . and he won’t do anything else. He’s never been that way.”

She pushed him back. “So far as we know. He’s mad, Rick. And nasty. You don’t know what he’s going to do or when. Look what he did to Katie. She said he never knew what he was doing himself from one minute to the next.”

“You have to find him . . . quickly,” said the young man, turning back towards the police. “Nat, where did you last see him with Will?”

The police looked at the young woman, seeming now, so the woman thought, to realise exactly what had happened.

“He was running along the high street, the other side of the parade. I thought he’d turned and gone up the hill but I think he must have kept going back towards . . .”

The young woman and the young man looked at each other.

“Shit,” said the woman, “he knows we were down this end of town. He’s gone to the cottage to get our car – he’ll use that as a getaway.”

“He’s going to need my keys,” added the man. “And my parents will be in the cottage when he arrives.” He gulped in air. “Seriously . . . please . . . you have to be quick. You have to get there before he does. It may be too late . . .”

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