I Could Be You by I Could Be You (epub)

Author:I Could Be You (epub)
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Canelo Books
Published: 2019-12-10T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Seven

Dee

Hate was a powerful motivator. In the days following Billy’s visit, Dee wallowed in hatred. She went back obsessively over every single thing he’d done to hurt her, all the missed dates, forgotten special occasions, the nights he’d fallen asleep downstairs instead of coming to bed with her, the nights he hadn’t come home at all. The children he’d persuaded her she didn’t want. The lies he’d told and the many, many ways he’d hurt her. She hated until her body ached from it and she felt as if something dark and rotten was growing inside her.

‘It’s not healthy,’ Louise said when Dee tried to explain it to her. ‘Your marriage is over; your divorce is final. It’s time to let it go, Dee.’

Dee knew Louise wouldn’t understand. How could she? Louise with her perfect children and her sensible husband who adored her and bought her jewellery and nice holidays and remembered their wedding anniversaries and the children’s birthdays and… and…

She looked Billy up on the internet. Everything she read confirmed what she’d already worked out. His star was very much in the descendant. All that promise and talent, thrown away for the sake of one more drink. Always one more with Billy. One more, one for the road, one last round, until all the drink was gone and all the people who’d ever cared about him were gone too.

Over the last three years, he’d gone from being the Daily Post’s number-one journalist, front-page stories week after week, to a hack with the occasional byline in the weekend papers. Nothing solid from him in years. No wonder Nigel had finally lost patience.

And now he thought he could piggyback on this tragedy and use it to turn his failing career around. He wanted the story and thought he could use Dee to get to it. Over her dead body.

Brian Higgins, the guy from the Bristol Uni Facebook group, had finally replied to the messages Dee had sent him.

Sorry, he wrote. Thought I had Tom’s email but I appear to have lost it. I’d prefer it if you didn’t contact me again.

When Dee tried to reply, her message didn’t go through. Brian Higgins had blocked her from contacting him. Which made her curious. She wanted to know what could have happened to change his mind so quickly.

As it turned out, she didn’t need Brian’s help. Ten minutes searching through Facebook profiles and she found a Tom Doyle who’d graduated from Bristol University in 2013. She sent him a friend request and a message, telling him she was a friend of Ella’s and needed to speak to her urgently. She gave her email address and phone number and told him he could contact her any time. She didn’t mention Katie, thinking she’d wait first to see if he replied to her message. So far, she’d heard nothing from him. Either he didn’t go on Facebook very often, or he didn’t want to help.

On Monday morning, Leonard called. Finally. Dee had left four messages for him and was starting to think he was trying to avoid her.

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