True Crime by Georgina Lees

Author:Georgina Lees [Lees, Georgina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780008614089
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Chapter Twenty

When I finally get home, there’s a car pulled up outside the house, a dusty blue Mini, not a car I recognise. The door swings open and Tara climbs out. Struggling, she lengthens her cane and leans on it as she watches me, almost like it’s her home and I’m trespassing.

‘Hi, Grace,’ she says, smacking her lips together. ‘Quite the day you’ve had.’

‘Please, I’m not in the mood for this,’ I say.

‘Well, you’re going to have to be, because I’m not leaving until you hear what I have to say.’ He voice sounds strained, like she might cry.

‘You have nothing to say to me.’

‘I do,’ she says, hitting her walking stick against the pavement as I cross the lawn towards the house.

‘No, you don’t,’ I yell back. ‘You’re rotten.’

She laughs. ‘Oh, Grace, come on, you know Graham wasn’t involved in this, but that doesn’t matter. What I came here to say to you is leave him alone. He’s rebuilt his life, he has a beautiful family, and he’s moved them to be closer to me so I can be near my son in my final years.’

‘Final years?’ I say. ‘Don’t act older than you are.’

‘Leave him and his family alone, Grace, I’m warning you.’

‘Warning me?’ I say, turning and storming towards her. She throws back her walking stick and rests a hand on her car. ‘For all I know you’re covering for him.’

‘Finally,’ she says smiling, ‘you’re saying what you really think. It’s only taken ten years.’

I ignore her, walking back towards the house. I close the door and scream, wondering briefly if she can hear, but I don’t care. I drop my things to the floor and let out a painful cry. I tear through the house, the anger ripping through my chest, my heart feeling like it’ll explode, a pain in my temple, and then I think I’m going to faint, but I suck in a deep breath of air and count all the things I need to do today.

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