The Child Catcher (A DI Erica Swift Thriller Book 4) by M K Farrar

Author:M K Farrar [Farrar, M K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: DI Series, police procedural, British Crime, crime series, detective series
Publisher: Warwick House Press
Published: 2020-10-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Sometimes she felt as though her children didn’t even love her.

Not that they’d said as much, but she could feel it down to her bones. It didn’t matter how much she did for them, cooked their meals, did their laundry, cleaned up after them, they just weren’t grateful. She knew they were only young, and it was probably to be expected, but the future worried her. Everyone talked about how it only got harder when they reached their pre-teens and then their teenage years, how the attitude and ungratefulness would only increase. They’d expect even more from her than they did now, and the thought of living with them while they demanded extra food, and money, and lifts out to see friends filled her with anger and frustration at events that hadn’t even happened yet.

It wasn’t fair that she was having to deal with everything on her own, either. It had been so easy for Tim, just deciding he didn’t love her anymore and that he was leaving. He’d said he ‘needed to move on’ and he ‘couldn’t keep living life like this’. She understood things hadn’t been easy recently, but for him to up and leave after six years of marriage...well, she hadn’t been expecting it at all. She’d always considered herself good at reading people, but him announcing he was leaving had felt as though she’d been walking along, minding her own business, only to slam straight into a brick wall. They were adults. They were married. They had a home and a family together. You didn’t get to just check out on all of that.

Except, that was exactly what Tim had done, and she’d been left behind to pick up the pieces.

Helen checked the clock. He’d be finishing work soon. Maybe she’d just drive by Tim’s workplace and see if she could catch him. She didn’t even need to speak to him, really, just seeing him would be enough to make her feel better.

Okay, maybe it was more than that. Maybe what she really wanted—and needed—was to remind him that she was still here. She didn’t want him to forget her or make things so easy on him that he would forget her.

It killed her to see him getting on with his life, as though they no longer existed.

Helen jumped in her car and drove the twenty minutes to Tim’s office. She was in luck, and there was a space on the other side of the road that she was able to pull into. The position gave her a good view of the office building and the front door leading into it.

He might not be at work today.

He might be home...

What if he’d called in sick because he had a new woman in his life, and they were spending the day in bed together, calling up for a takeaway, and drinking wine, and laughing and making love? Her skin grew hot and clammy at the thought.

Each time the door to the building opened, Helen sat up

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