The Regret by Dan Malakin

Author:Dan Malakin [Malakin, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912986675
Publisher: Bloodhound Books
Published: 2019-08-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

LinkedIn

Rachel slammed open the front door and staggered inside, chest heaving, sweat dripping off her chin and leaving a trail of dark spots. She massaged the molten pain in her thighs. The thoughts the agony in her lungs had kept at bay invaded her mind. How did he do it? How could she prove he deleted her patient records? What if she couldn’t?

She hobbled around the living room, squeezing the back of her leg, trying to soften the cramp digging into her muscles. The OxyContin called to her from the money box. Just one, to take the edge off. Lily wasn’t here–

No, no, no.

The knife? The pills in the bath? No more. She needed to keep her head clear if she was going to think her way out of this.

As her laptop started, she checked her phone. No more texts, thank God. She’d expected another from the same number as last night. Ha ha! got you fired! But she did have new WhatsApp messages from Spence – he’d sent her a sweet one yesterday, saying happy birthday. She opened the app, and looked at his profile picture, which he’d changed to a selfie of Andreas’s slender olive-skinned cheek pressed to his now-tanned one.

Rachel’s smile slipped when she read his messages. Linda had contacted him, asking if he’d noticed anything strange about her behaviour of late, or seen her standard of care slipping. She’d not mentioned the missing eMAR records, but said enough to leave the impression this wasn’t a trivial matter. His last message read: Ring me! I’m freaking out!! XXX

What she wouldn’t give to hear his voice. He’d make some jokes, assure her that she was a good nurse, a good mother, that she wasn’t going insane. But what if he came back early? How guilty would she feel then? No. He said ring, and he was a good enough friend to say it and mean it. She pressed the call icon, and waited while it rang, but he didn’t pick up. Probably gone for a swim, or to sunbathe. She tapped out a quick message: Don’t freak out, I’m fine. Will try you again later. You and A look gorgeous :-) xxx

She put her phone on the coffee table and tentatively logged into LinkedIn, expecting to see a load of gibberish from her middle-of-the-night updates, but it read okay, at least to her. Was it convincing enough to trick Griffin though? Then she realised – her profile was missing one crucial thing. Friends. Fortunately, on LinkedIn, people seemed less discriminating about who they connected with than on other social networks; she simply clicked on the connect button beside every profile in the Who You Might Know sidebar. As it was during work hours, she got a lot of accepted invitations, and soon Sophie Thomas had a hundred friends in her network.

Rachel sat back, amazed at how easy it was to spawn a bogus identity and insinuate yourself into someone’s life. Once she was connected to their profile,

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