Free Falling by Moseley Kirsty

Author:Moseley, Kirsty [Moseley, Kirsty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-05-13T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

It took over and hour for the police to arrive. Our complaint wasn’t deemed urgent because no one was in immediate danger.

Luke had finally managed to calm me down, and he’d also managed to get hold of Alex and tell him to come home from the gym. To say that Alex had been shocked would be a severe understatement. He’d looked from me to Luke several times, asking stupid questions over and over before the penny finally dropped and he switched into overprotective, angry brother mode. He didn’t seem to believe my suspicions over Sandy either.

When the police finally did arrive we all sat down in the lounge while I relayed my tale over and over again, everything that had happened recently, from the silent phone calls, right down to the sympathy card that I’d found on my bed.

“So the card was on your bed?” Detective Inspector Neeson, the kind faced police lady asked, scribbling on her notepad.

I nodded, clutching at the Kleenex I had in my hand. “Yeah.”

A frown lined her forehead as she pursed her lips. “When you came home from tutoring you say that the front door was locked, and that you had to unlock the backdoor to go into your yard?”

I thought back, just double checking in my own mind. I’d definitely unlocked both doors, I remembered it fairly clearly. “Yeah, both doors were locked,” I confirmed.

“And you didn’t go into your room at that time,” she clarified.

I shook my head in answer. “I went upstairs, but only into Alex’s room to see if Chester was in there.” From the corner of my eye I saw Alex’s jaw tighten when I mentioned Chester.

She made a few more notes then before speaking, “When you went to the back yard did you leave your front door unlocked?”

I frowned, thinking hard, unsure as why that would even matter. “I guess. But what does that have to do with anything?”

She smiled kindly, her eyes soft and sympathetic. “I’m just trying to ascertain when the card was placed on your bed. There was no forced entry to the house, so it’s possible that someone snuck into the house and placed the card while you to tending to your dog outside,” she suggested.

I swallowed my anger. Did that mean that Sandy had been waiting for me to arrive home so that she could sneak in behind me and put the card there?

Alex leant forward, cocking his head to the side. “But then how did Chester get outside if there was no forced entry? I didn’t open the cat door, and Maisie said that she didn’t either. My parents aren’t here so they couldn’t have unlocked it.”

DI Neeson nodded along, not seeming shocked so she’d obviously already thought along those lines too. “That’s another thing that I was about to ask,” she answered. “Does anyone have access to the house? A spare key with a neighbour or anything?”

I shook my head in answer, pressing myself into Luke’s side, enjoying the solid firmness of his body.

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