Crossing The Line (DI Sara Ramsey Book 16) by M A Comley

Author:M A Comley [Comley, M A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jeamel Publishing Limited
Published: 2022-06-19T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

“I said do as you’re told, when you’re told, not when you feel like it. No wonder your parents didn’t want you. Yes, I’ve been lumbered with you, but you will do things my way or not at all. Feel free to walk out of that door whenever things get too much for you around here.”

“Is that what you’re doing? Trying to force me out of your life now that Gran has gone?” Tears welled up, and his voice tremored with emotion.

“You want to know the truth?”

He nodded, staring deep into his grandfather’s eyes.

“I never wanted you in the first place. Your parents had the right idea, running out on you. They realised early on what an anchor you’d be around their necks. Your mother should have aborted you the moment she found out you were growing.”

His whole world collapsed in an instant. His grandfather had always resented him coming between him and his grandmother. If it wasn’t evident before, it was now.

He despised his grandfather. Couldn’t wait until he was old enough to leave home. He was fifteen. Until then, he’d keep out of the old man’s way. There were three people in his life he had ever truly detested. His parents for running out on him the minute he was born and moving to Australia, on the other side of the world. And his grandfather who, since his grandmother’s death, had made it patently obvious what he thought of him. He’d always regarded him as a burden. He’d only ever known love from one person, his grandmother, on the rare occasion. And when she wasn’t around, his grandfather had knocked seven bells out of him, including hitting him from one side of the living room to the other when he was eleven years old and had the audacity to have asked for a bar of chocolate while his gran was at bingo.

His grandfather, after sending him flying, had dragged him to his feet by the scruff of the neck and told him how much he despised him, then he’d threatened that if he ever told his grandmother what went on when they were left alone, he’d sneak into his room at night and kill him. Fear had driven him to sleeping with the light on all night from that day until the day after his grandmother had been laid to rest. He snuck out of the house that night and had never returned. He was fifteen and alone in the world.

He sat up now. His nights were filled with the memories eating away at him.

“I said shut up.” Colin towered over him.

“What have I done?”

“Every fucking night is the same. You wake everyone up, crying out in your sleep. We’re sick of it.”

He mumbled an apology, hoping Colin would return to his sleeping bag on the other side of the room. The light went on, and everyone else either groaned or shouted at them to stop arguing and go back to sleep.

“You want to take this outside, big man?”

Colin bent close and laughed in his face.

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