The Downstairs Neighbor by Helen Cooper

Author:Helen Cooper [Cooper, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2021-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

34.

STEPH

Steph sat in her car outside her house, her windshield slowly steaming up, black skeletons of trees disappearing behind the veil. Back from her aborted mission, she was at a loss as to what to do next.

She couldn’t stop thinking about that first night, when Freya’s absence could be measured in hours rather than days, and the PCs had asked whether Steph or Paul had any enemies. Paul’s conscience had clearly tortured and driven him ever since. But Steph had refused to join the dots between her own secrets and the protective sphere she’d tried to hold around her family, like a spell. If they did somehow connect, the picture they would form was everything she’d ever feared.

There was something to grasp onto now, though. A sign that she had to join those dots, face the unthinkable. She seized her phone and scrolled to a number she’d called “Work 2” in her contacts. Her finger froze on the screen as she was hit by the same doubts she’d had while driving along the motorway just now. Attacking this head-on seemed too risky. There were risks to every plan she thought of: risks to Freya and Paul, to herself, her whole existence.

Risks if she was wrong, risks if she was right.

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