Two Little Girls: A totally gripping psychological thriller with a twist by Frances Vick

Author:Frances Vick
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786818195
Publisher: Bookouture

Seventeen

Kirsty got into the habit of popping in to see Sylvia once or twice a week after work. She was always alone, and there was never a hint that Angela had been to visit.

‘I’m worried I’m keeping you from your husband,’ Sylvia told her after a few visits. They were sitting, as usual, in the kitchen. Sylvia had made a ginger cake, warm and dense with spice. ‘Let me give you some of this to take back for him.’

‘We… we live apart at the moment,’ Kirsty told her.

‘Oh!’ Sylvia looked pained. ‘Oh, I’m so sorry! I thought there were problems, but—’

‘No, not like that!’ Kirsty said hastily. ‘It’s just timing – I started the job before he could finish his jobs. He’ll move up here soon, and then we’ll buy. This is just temporary.’

Sylvia nodded seriously. ‘Good. It’s not good to be alone.’

‘It’s not… but what did you mean, problems?’

‘What? Oh nothing. Nothing. I must have just been picking up on, well, you feeling a bit lonely, that’s all. I mean, why else would you waste your time coming to see an old bat like me?’

‘I like you, that’s why. And it’s nice to meet someone good. Coming back here wasn’t easy.’

‘So why did you come back?’ Sylvia’s eyes were sharp through the tea steam.

‘Well, Vic? Milo… I wanted to help out there. And then I got my job of course.’

‘Do you see a lot of your sister?’

‘N-no. Not as much. She’s busy, you know, with the baby and the house.’

‘And the job, it must be a promotion or something? To leave London and move back here, I mean?’

‘N-no. More of a sideways move, I’d say.’ There was a pause. Outside, the sunflowers in Sylvia’s front yard shifted in the wind, rattled like snakes. ‘I’m not entirely sure why I came back, to tell the truth,’ she admitted, with a self-conscious laugh.

Sylvia opened her mouth as if to speak, shut it, opened it again. ‘I can read your cards? If you think it might help?’

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