Witness by Mandasue Heller

Author:Mandasue Heller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK

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The door slammed into the wall below the girl’s room, and her heart skittered in her chest when she heard footsteps rushing through the kitchen, the hallway and up the stairs. Remembering what her mummy had told her to do if anyone ever came into the house while they were sleeping, she quickly rolled off the bed and wriggled under it, unsure if it was the police looking for drugs, or the bad men coming to fight with her stepdad again.

She didn’t understand why those horrible men always wanted to hurt him, because he was really nice to her and her mummy. Most of the time. When he had money and smokes and they weren’t arguing and throwing things at each other. But, as scary as it was when the bad men came, at least she didn’t get sent away to stay with strangers afterwards, like she did whenever the police turned up looking for drugs and made her go with the fat lady social worker.

Under the bed now, trying not to sneeze as dust went up her nose, she bit down hard on her hand to stop herself from crying out when the footsteps ran past her room and her mummy screamed . . .

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