TENDER TREACHERY (Mystery Romance): The TENDER Series ~ Book 2 by H.Y. Hanna

Author:H.Y. Hanna [Hanna, H.Y.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wisheart Press
Published: 2014-08-30T18:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

It had taken Toran all day to track down the address. He stood outside the small condominium in Bukit Batok, a residential suburb in west Singapore, and mentally prepared what he was going to say. Even after an extensive career of asking hard questions as an investigative journalist, forcing a grieving family to relive their worst nightmare still didn’t sit easy with him.

Toran strode up to the front entrance and pressed the bell for the apartment number scribbled on the scrap of paper he held in his hand. As he waited for an answer, his thoughts drifted to Leah and he frowned. He hadn’t heard from her again since that strange message this morning about the yoga class. It had been amusing at the time, but now he felt a flicker of worry. He knew he couldn’t expect her to give him hourly updates. Still, something bothered him, like that faintly itchy tag on the back of your shirt—the one that wasn’t enough to make you change yet had you irritably scratching it from time to time.

He shrugged thoughts of Leah away and pressed the bell again. This time, a disembodied voice answered the telecom and, a minute later, he was buzzed into the building. When he stepped out of the lift on the seventh floor, he found Mr and Mrs Gopal already standing in their doorway, waiting for him.

“Thank you for agreeing to see me. I know this must be very difficult for you,” Toran said as he sat down in the simple, neat living room.

The couple sat down on the sofa opposite him. Mrs Gopal was a small woman in a faded sari, with hair pulled back in a long braid. Her eyes looked red and weepy, but Mr Gopal had the fire of anger in his eyes.

“If you are going to expose that witch and her cult, I will do everything I can do help you!” Mr Gopal said, jutting his chin out.

“Well, I’m just doing some background research,” said Toran cautiously. “I’ve heard a lot of rumours about Sanctum Bona Dea, but I’m not sure that there’s been any justifiable—”

“Murder!” Mr Gopal thundered, shaking his fist. “They murdered our daughter! Is that not justifiable enough?”

“Do you have proof of that?” asked Toran.

The other man sagged a little. “No proof. But I know. In my heart. They murdered our Desi.”

“I’m sorry,” said Toran quietly. “I know it must be terrible for you to have to relive this, but can you tell me a bit more about what happened? I understand that Desi’s body was discovered near the Changi Point Ferry Terminal, where it had washed ashore. The police reports said that she had drowned. Had you reported her missing?”

“No, she was not living with us then. She was staying at that place,” Mr Gopal spat. “That witch’s place. Sanctum Bona Dea. It was bad enough when they stole her from us, but at least we thought she was safe there. But when the police called us…” He turned away suddenly, unable to go on.

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