Fox Evil by Minette Walters

Author:Minette Walters [Walters, Minette]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: ISBN|9780330463072
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK

In Shenstead Farm kitchen, Prue was as worried as her friend. They were both deeply frightened. The men they had taken for granted had surprised them. ‘Dad doesn’t want to talk to you,’ Prue’s son had said curtly over the phone. ‘He says if you don’t stop calling his mobile, he’ll have the number changed. We’ve told him he can stay here tonight.’

‘Just put him on,’ she snapped. ‘He’s being ridiculous.’

‘I thought that was your province,’ Jack flashed back. ‘We’re all trying to get our heads round the toe-curling embarrassment of your phone calls to that poor old man. What the hell did you think you were doing?’

‘You don’t know anything about it,’ she said coldly. ‘Neither does Dick.’

‘That’s exactly right. We don’t . . . and never have done. Jesus wept, Mum! How could you do a thing like that? We all thought you were working the poison out of your system by slagging him off at home, but to plague him with calls and not even say anything . . . It’s not as if anyone believes your version of what happened. You’re always rewriting history to put yourself in a better light.’

‘How dare you speak to me like that?’ demanded Prue as if he were still a bolshie teenager. ‘You’ve done nothing but criticize me since you married that girl.’

Jack gave an angry laugh. ‘Point proved . . . Mother. You only ever remember what you want to remember, and the rest goes into a hole in your brain. If you have any sense you’ll replay that conversation you say you heard, and try to recall the bits you’ve left out . . . it’s damn bloody strange that the only person who believes you is that idiot Bartlett woman.’ There was the sound of a voice in the background. ‘I have to go. Lindy’s parents are leaving.’ He paused and when he spoke again his tone was final. ‘You’re on your own with this one, so just remember to tell the police and any solicitors who turn up that the rest of us were in the dark. We’ve all worked too hard to see the business go down the drain because you can’t keep your mouth shut. Dad’s already protected this end by transferring it to Lindy and me. Tomorrow he’s going to ring-fence your end so we don’t lose Shenstead in slander damages.’ The line went dead as he hung up.

Prue’s immediate reaction was a physical one. The saliva drained so drastically from her mouth that she couldn’t swallow and with desperation she returned the receiver to its rest and filled a glass at the tap. She began by blaming everyone except herself. Eleanor had done far worse than she had . . . Dick was such a wet he’d been frightened off . . . Belinda had poisoned Jack’s mind against her from the start . . . if anyone should know what James was like, it was Elizabeth . . . all Prue had done was take the poor girl’s side .

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