Kill Me Again by Abbott Rachel

Author:Abbott, Rachel [Abbott, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Black Dot Publishing Ltd
Published: 2016-02-17T05:00:00+00:00

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A second phone call from the police informed Maggie that Mr Douglas had been delayed but would be with her in about fifteen minutes. Maggie didn’t know whether to be pleased or frustrated. She couldn’t understand why they needed to see her. She had told Bill Shaw everything she intended to say, so what they hoped to gain from visiting her, she had no idea.

Maggie needed time to think, and fifteen minutes wasn’t enough. On the other hand, if the police arrived right now, at this very minute, they would know something was up. She could feel how flushed her face was, and as she looked in the mirror, she could see the distress and confusion in her own eyes. She pulled her hair back into a ponytail and scrubbed the remains of her lipstick off. With her pink cheeks, she looked like a china doll.

Since Suzy had shown her the photo, Maggie’s head had been all over the place. Her heart was pumping – was this finally a clue to who Duncan was? But how would it help her to find him? If the photo of the boy with the bike was Duncan, Patricia Rowe must know something about him. Perhaps she knew his mother. Perhaps they had lived near Mrs Rowe and he had been a friend of some of her children.

Maggie looked hastily at her watch. She had to get in touch with this woman – she wanted to know who Duncan really was.

She went back to the Facebook post that contained the images of the children and saw there were a few comments. Most were from people praising Patricia Rowe for the work she had done with children, but one was from a Stacey Meagan. It simply said ‘Happy days’. Could that mean she was one of the children in the picture? All the girls seemed quite a bit younger than Duncan.

Maggie clicked on Stacey’s name and didn’t learn much as her privacy settings hid her posts from people she didn’t know. Maggie browsed and found a few photos that matched Stacey’s profile picture. If she had to guess, she would have said that Stacey Meagan was in her mid-twenties, but it was hard to know for sure. She returned to Patricia Rowe’s page and saved a copy of the photo of the children with the bikes, returned to Stacey’s page and opened a message. She had never heard back from Patricia, and given the lack of activity on her page, maybe she had given up on Facebook. But Stacey Meagan was another option.

She thought through the words carefully, but she had only minutes left until Tom Douglas arrived. When Maggie set up her Facebook account she had done it using her middle name and her maiden name. She had never posted anything and found the whole idea a bit spooky, but had wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Now she thanked some divine entity that she didn’t believe in for the fact that she had made that decision.

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