Fear No Evil by Debbie Johnson

Author:Debbie Johnson [Debbie Johnson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780008121945
Publisher: HarperCollins, Maze
Published: 2014-10-12T23:00:00+00:00

‘Perhaps it wasn’t God who took her, Lorraine. Perhaps it was something else. But she’s with Him now. I’m sure of that.’

I wasn’t so convinced – this was a teenage girl Wigwam had told me was planning a move into the hierarchy of Liverpool’s version of the Krays. A girl who even Wigwam had described as ‘tough’. Surely St Peter would call security when that rolled up at the pearly gates looking for a pass in?

Lorraine squeezed her eyelids closed, and tiny drops of liquid were forced from the corners. She wiped them clear with one vicious swipe, and tugged her hand free of Dan’s.

‘You would say that. Anyway. When our Theresa,’ – she used the correct Liverpool pronunciation of ‘Tree-za’ – ‘started blabbering on about this ghost business, we all thought she’d lost the plot. She’s a bit highly strung, to be honest, her mother did too much coke while she was carrying her. We were all amazed she came out of the womb with a whole nose. But they were close, her and Geneva, always had been. And she says our girl had been… well, haunted. For weeks before the fall. Not the type to spook easy, Geneva, you know? She had… balls, Eugene always used to say. Told her she was a little girl with big balls.’

Eugene would probably win Grandad of the Year Awards with pep talks like that. He should get it printed up into a bumper sticker.

‘She wasn’t daft. No illusions about what her dad and grandad did for a living. Saw plenty of stuff no little one should. She had a habit of hiding for hours on end, in cupboards and under desks and even in the boots of cars. Liked listening in, storing it all away. It didn’t bother her. Not like it did me, anyway. She was clever. She had plans. For years, when she was a baby, I had these fantasies – I’d get some money of me own, take her away, move to fucking France or something and raise her away from… them. But as she got older, I saw it different. I saw she was more like them than me. Don’t get me wrong, she was a good girl. She never hurt a fly.’

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