Twice the Lie by M K Farrar

Author:M K Farrar [Farrar, M K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: police procedural, British, Crime, [requel, thriller, novella, series
Publisher: Warwick House Press
Published: 2021-03-09T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

MICHELLE HAD BARELY slept all night and instead had lain awake listening for the sound of the door opening and Russell’s feet on the stairs as his made his way up to bed. She tried his mobile phone number for the hundredth time, but it went straight to answer phone. There was no point in leaving a message—she’d already left numerous ones all saying the same thing. Who could she call who might know where he was? She didn’t even have the numbers of any of his friends, and he didn’t do social media, so it wasn’t as though she could track any of them down from there. Besides, Russell didn’t really have many close friends, not people he saw regularly, anyway. The people they hung out with tended to be her friends and their husbands or partners. He had the odd person he’d mention who he went to school with, but that was all. He’d even had her brother as his best man at their wedding. Perhaps she should have seen something strange in that, but she hadn’t at the time, thinking instead that it was good of Russ for including her brother like that. He didn’t have any family of his own, and the friends he had from school lived far away—one in Australia and the other in Hong Kong. Men weren’t like women; they didn’t have close friends. Not that she had many herself lately. There were some school mums she got on okay with, but she wouldn’t exactly call them friends.

“Where’s Dad?” Max asked, coming down the stairs in his pyjamas, rubbing sleep from his eyes. “Is he not home yet?”

“Oh, he had to stay away with work,” she lied. “Now, who’s hungry?”

She wanted to divert his attention, worried that if he asked too many questions, she might show her true feelings and only make him worried, too.

Max stuck his skinny arm in the air as though he was trying to answer a question at school. “Me, me!”

She ruffled his hair. “Good to hear it.”

Normally, on a Saturday morning, she’d make the effort to cook something, but she was too distracted to focus on making pancakes or frying bacon today. Instead, she pulled out a box of cereal, a bowl, and some milk and let Max get stuck in.

She went to the living room and stood at the window, looking out onto the road at the front of the house, praying she would see Russ’s car pull into the drive. She picked up her phone and checked it for a missed call, but there wasn’t one. She tapped her fingers against her lips. Should she call the local hospital and see if anyone matching his description had been brought in, or even the police and report him as missing? A heavy weight had lodged itself into the middle of her chest, and her stomach churned. She hadn’t been able to eat anything that morning and had barely managed a couple of sips of tea. Deep

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