I Will Break You by Daniela Arnold

Author:Daniela Arnold [Arnold, Daniela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

Forty-five minutes later, Jake had said goodbye and left for work. Jody was still fast asleep on the sofa in the living room, which was very convenient for Charly. She had told Jake about the open front door and windows and told him she planned to spend the day calling companies that specialized in installing security locks. Jake’s guess about what had happened was that the front door’s locking mechanism had failed and Charly had forgotten to lock all the windows after airing the house in the evening. He had offered to come back in the evening and install a new security lock. An extremely generous offer, which Charly took up only too gladly in view of her daily shrinking bank account.

The ringing of the landline phone ripped her out of her thoughts. Since the call to the welfare department was long overdue, she quickly ran into the hallway to get the phone. Glancing at the display, she recognized that it was a London area code. She answered the phone. A young police officer was on the phone and asked if she was a family member of Linda Shaw. Charly wanted to explain who she was and why he had to make do with her, then decided to lie, hoping the man would be able to tell her something new about Adam’s accident.

“I am Alice Lee, sister of the late Imogen Shaw.”

The young man hesitated. He seemed undecided whether he was allowed to give her information. Finally he let the bomb explode. “I’m calling about Linda Shaw. I got your phone number from the old lady’s address book.” He fell into an uneasy silence.

Charly felt her insides shrink. “What’s wrong? Why are you calling me?”

“One of Ms. Linda Shaw’s friends called us last night because she did not come to play cards as expected and did not answer the phone. When she was also unavailable this morning, the lady called us for a wellness check. We had to break open the apartment door and that’s where we found her.”

“What does that mean? You ‘found’ her?”

The policeman coughed, but Charly knew he was only stalling for time. “Ms. Shaw had a terrible accident. She fell off a ladder while cleaning and broke her neck.”

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