The Man I Married by Elena Wilkes

Author:Elena Wilkes
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Hera
Published: 2020-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

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‘Viv?’

‘Oh! Luce—’

‘Viv, Gould has just sent me a message: a voice message. He has that little girl.’

‘Lucy…’

‘Viv. You know what kind of person I am. I don’t make stuff like this up. Gould is clever. He’s covered his tracks. As soon as I played it, it—’

‘But I’m standing here looking at him, Lucy.’

‘What?’

‘I’m doing a filmed supervision of Dave Cartwright running the weekend sex offender group. Gould is sitting right on the other side of this window. I only left the room and answered because I saw it was you.’

‘No, that’s not possible Viv… No. It must’ve been a timed sending or something… Look, interrogate my phone; you’ll see it on the call log. I’m not wrong Viv, he has that little girl!’ I suddenly realised I’d raised my voice. She went quiet for a few seconds.

‘Go to the police, report it, get it on file, and when you’ve done that—’

I found I was breathing hard.

‘You need to talk to someone, Lucy,’ she said gently. ‘I want to see you first thing on Monday morning.’

‘It was Gould, Viv. It was him. It was him again.’

‘Lucy, I haven’t said anything before because… Well, I didn’t want to freak you out. But the police said they weren’t able to connect Gould with any of the calls that were made to your phone. Now I know what you’re going to say, but you just need to—’

I didn’t care about what I needed to do. I wasn’t listening.

‘He has the little girl.’

‘Lucy?’

Her voice seemed very far away. ‘Lucy? Can you hear me? Are you still there?’

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