Tormenting Lila by Sarah Alderson

Author:Sarah Alderson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781471119576
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: 2013-07-04T04:00:00+00:00

Three days later

The Inquirer & Mirror

Nantucket’s newspaper since 1821

A girl was attacked on Dionis beach last night. The girl, aged 18, was working as a nanny for a Boston family and had spent the night with friends at popular Nantucket venue The Ship. It’s believed she was abducted while walking home alone later that evening.

Police responding to another disturbance in the area discovered her partially-clothed body among the dunes. She was air-lifted to hospital in Boston where doctors describe her injuries as critical. There is mounting speculation, that the girl was attacked by the same person who murdered 19-year-old Brazilian nanny Juliana Da Riva last summer.

Da Riva’s body washed up on Dionis beach but police have refused to comment on whether there is a serial killer at loose on the island targeting nannies.

I swallowed the lump in my throat and stared wide-eyed up at Alex. ‘It’s the same guy, isn’t it? The same guy who attacked Amber?’

Alex, reading over my shoulder, nodded. ‘Looks like it.’

‘Oh my god,’ I whispered. ‘What if it was that girl?’

‘What girl?’

‘The girl – the English girl who was at The Ship. I heard her introduce herself as a nanny. What if it was her?’

‘We told the police. We did what we could,’ Alex told me, but I knew he was wondering too whether we should have done more, could have done more.

‘They’ll catch him, don’t worry,’ Alex said, pressing his lips to the top of my head. Beneath us, the engines thrummed angrily. Suki and Nate stood leaning over the railing of the boat, throwing bread to the seagulls overhead.

Jack walked over then, carrying two styrofoam cups of coffee. Amber was behind him. They sat down beside us on the plastic bench seats and we stared out in silence at the choppy waves of the Sound and Nantucket, receding to a dot on the horizon.

Jack nodded at the newspaper I was holding. ‘Now aren’t you glad I showed up? I told you Nantucket was a dangerous place.’ He yawned and stretched, one arm resting on the back of Amber’s chair. ‘I’m not letting my little sis out of my sight from now on.’

I felt Alex tense beside me and squeezed his hand. ‘Allow me,’ I whispered, swivelling my eyes in Jack’s direction . . . and to the steaming cup of coffee in his hand.

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