The Island by Mary Grand

Author:Mary Grand [Grand, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boldwood Books

The card was for the Travelodge in Newport.

Juliet took out her phone and noted the date and time on her calendar and started to replace everything carefully. However, as she was doing this, she saw a large zipped-up toilet bag tucked underneath everything. She took it out, it was very full, the zip strained. She started to unzip it and stared at the contents. There was a wad of notes. She flicked through it – a couple of hundred pounds maybe. What on earth was Anwen doing with that kind of money loose in her bag? She had said about working in different places, maybe some of it was cash in hand. Juliet carefully replaced it.

She got up then and started to walk around the bedroom. She tentatively opened drawers, but they were all very tidy, their contents unremarkable. She glanced at Cassie’s iPad, opened it. It was still on and unlocked which wasn’t like Cassie. Juliet was in too deep now to stop and so, after taking a big breath, she went to the emails. There were only a few in her inbox, but she noticed there were a number of files. That was Cassie: each email put in its place. One was labelled ‘restaurant’, one ‘orchestra’, one ‘holidays’, and then, right at the bottom, a file which was called ‘boring stuff’.

Juliet, of course, clicked on it and the first thing she saw was an email from someone called Tim. She’d never heard Cassie mention a Tim. She read the email. ‘Please come back, Cass, the doctors up here have to be better. I don’t understand why you have to go back there to live. There are so many more opportunities for you up here.’

Juliet re-read the email. Why the talk of doctors? What was wrong with Cassie? She also noticed that this person Tim had called her sister Cass; it seemed to emphasise that Cassie had led a life separate to them in London, almost as if she’d taken on a different identity.

Juliet read on. Cassie had replied, ‘There is no point going over this any more, I’m staying.’

There were previous emails, all from Tim. It seemed he’d been writing at least once a day since Cassie had come back to the island. A number of times, Tim had asked Cassie to return, and lines such as ‘you know how I feel about you’ and ‘I miss you so much’ made it clear this was a romantic relationship. Juliet was sure this was the person Cassie had been talking to on the phone in the bathroom. What was less clear was the meaning of phrases such as ‘we can get help for you’ and ‘I will pay for you to see someone privately’. Was illness the real reason for Cassie leaving the orchestra, and if so, why not tell them? It would make it so much easier for Mum to come to terms with Cassie giving up music, and they would all want to support her. As always, Juliet was aware that of the four sisters, Cassie was the one she understood least.

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