The Inheritance by Howard Linskey

Author:Howard Linskey [Linskey, Howard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781405945127
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2022-09-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

Patrick walked briskly on into the kitchen and Sarah would have gone after him to explain Marcus’s presence in the house but she was distracted by the phone ringing. It was Doctor Phillips coming back with a response from David Young. The killer had agreed to speak to her because he wanted to assure Sarah that he’d had nothing to do with Lucy Woodfell’s disappearance. Apparently, she could come that very day, if she wished? She told herself that this was a good thing while still not being entirely convinced that it was.

She met Doctor Phillips outside David’s apartment and David Young opened the door. He waited to take his cue from the doctor, who indicated that Sarah should enter the flat. David was a very big man in late middle age. He looked powerful and she tried not to think of how he had once used that strength. Sarah could read nothing in his blank expression.

The flat was starkly furnished and the living room doubled as the kitchen. Sarah chose the only armchair. The doctor sat down easily on the sofa next to his charge, making them look like co-conspirators, ready to answer her questions together.

‘I don’t want to go into the details of what happened between you and Megan,’ she began. ‘I am sure you’ve been over it many times.’ David gave her a half-smile to acknowledge this. ‘I want to ask you about what happened afterwards, when you went on the run. You managed to elude the police for two weeks?’ He nodded to acknowledge the truth of this. ‘During that time, where did you sleep?’

‘I slept rough. The weather was warm and I tried sleeping in the woods, but I kept getting bitten by insects so I moved to the beach.’

‘The beach near Cragsmoor Manor?’

‘No,’ he said quickly, ‘further up.’

‘Whereabouts?’

She could tell he didn’t like that question.

‘I didn’t sleep near the towns or villages, so I never knew exactly where I was.’

‘But you never slept near Cragsmoor? Not once? It’s right near the beach.’

‘No.’ He said it too quickly and looked down, avoiding her gaze. He definitely looked nervous.

‘You grew up ten miles from there. There are woods nearby to hide in. It was an ideal spot.’

‘No,’ he repeated firmly.

‘Okay,’ she said. The doctor gave her a slight smile then. She got the impression it was born of pride in David.

‘You kept that up for two weeks,’ she said, ‘sleeping rough. Then you handed yourself in. Why did you do that?’

‘Living like that is hard.’

‘You were still on the run when Lucy Woodfell disappeared.’

‘I never saw her.’ He said this quickly and it seemed like a well-rehearsed answer to a question he must have known was coming, but had the doctor rehearsed David or did he do it himself?

‘There were witnesses who saw you near the village close to the manor?’

‘That wasn’t me.’

‘A big, scruffy young man with muddied clothes who was the same height as you and had the same hair colour.’

‘Not me. I was far away then.

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