Until You're Mine by Hayes Samantha

Author:Hayes, Samantha [Hayes, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2013-06-19T23:00:00+00:00

24

CARLA DAVIS LOOKED dead even though she wasn’t. There were needles and tubes stuck in the back of her hand and sticky monitor pads on various parts of her body, exposing patches of pale flesh beneath the anaemic hospital gown they’d put her in.

‘It could have been a load of bollocks, of course,’ Lorraine said, staring down at the poor girl in the hospital bed. ‘The drugs talking.’

‘Barrett did say she was drifting in and out of sleep.’ Adam picked up the clipboard attached to the end of her bed. He soon replaced it, the scrawled notes and dots on the charts not meaning much to him. ‘But she kept mentioning the woman.’

‘Which potentially changes everything,’ Lorraine said. Possibilities rattled through her mind and none of them fitted with the meagre profile they’d so far built up. And they still couldn’t be certain that the two attacks were linked, even though they were gruesomely similar. Lorraine had hoped more leads would be forthcoming from Carla’s injuries, but the first priority was to save her life, get her fixed up in theatre, not have forensic pathologists probe around the mess on her body.

‘Tell me again what else Barrett reported,’ she said. He was one of their best DCs and had never let them down in an interview situation. He was thorough and thought on his feet.

‘We’ve been over this a thousand times already.’

It was true. They had discussed the investigations in depth at the meeting last night, with most of the team present. It had run on late into the evening. Then Adam and Lorraine had talked further at home while they cleaned up the mess Grace and her friends had left.

‘The ward sister only allowed Barrett to speak to Carla for a couple of minutes. He didn’t think that she had much idea of where she was or what had happened to her. She was very confused. She knew stuff like her name and where she lived but she had no recollection of the actual attack, only the moments leading up to it. But she kept saying that there was someone at the door, that she had to answer it. She got quite distressed about this, apparently.’

‘This mystery woman,’ Lorraine said, knowing the story anyway.

‘Correct,’ Adam said. ‘Barrett asked for a description and she just kept saying “thin” over and over. Doesn’t really help us much.’

Adam was suddenly leaning over Carla as she stirred. ‘Carla, can you hear me?’

Lorraine thought he was going to shake her. ‘Stop it, Adam, you’ll scare her.’ She also approached the young woman’s bedside. The sheets were draped over what she could only assume had been a very large abdomen until a short time ago. Did she even remember she’d been pregnant, Lorraine wondered? ‘Hello, love, can you hear me?’ she said softly. ‘I’m a detective. I just want to ask you a couple of questions.’

Lorraine ran a finger up and down the inside of the girl’s wrist. There was a plastic cannula taped to the back of her hand with a thin tube snaking up to a drip stand.

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