The Pirouette Predator by Jade Wright

Author:Jade Wright [Wright, Jade]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-25T16:00:00+00:00

Don't worry, I'm getting rid of the Corps de Ballet. All for you.

The first message read. I frown as I scroll on.

You'll see the news tomorrow. Another one bites the dust. This one was a fighter! Can see why you liked her.

They go on like this. Cryptic little text messages giving nothing much away.

It's the last message that makes me feel off-balance.

Leave Piper alone or she's next.

Seeing my name on Luke's phone makes my pupils dilate. I wipe a sheen of sweat from my forehead, my pulse rapid. The message is a threat telling him to leave me alone.

Someone knows about us.

That's why he's been so distant.

Everything is suddenly starting to make sense. The way he has been treating me – I wasn't imagining it. He was ignoring me because he was trying to protect me.

“What the hell is this?” I'm breathless.

I try to scroll on but there's nothing more.

“I don't know. There's handwritten notes too. I don't have them on me but I've kept them all,” Luke says, taking his phone back.

I grab the wine and drain the glass.

“Why haven't you gone to the police?” I ask.

“I thought it was a stupid prank at first. A mate, Steve probably, being an idiot,” he shrugs at me.

“When I started getting the messages about some of the girls disappearing before anyone else knew about it, that's when I realised this was serious. But the notes nailed to my door are covered in blood. It kind of looks like they've been written in blood, really. They said stuff like, 'Go to the police and I'll gut you in your sleep.'” he looks ashamed.

“You were too scared to come forward,” I say.

I tell him I understand. I tell him about the note I had on the door of the shed where I found River.

He's the first person I've told the whole truth to.

It instantly lifts a weight from my shoulders to share it with someone. To speak the words out loud. Even to Luke.

He shivers.

“If someone can do that to a dog, I don't know what the fuck they could do to someone like me.” He's shaking his head like he can't quite believe it.

“Or to all the missing girls,” I remind him.

He pushes his thumb and forefinger into his eyes. It looks like he's in agony.

“Can I have my sisters journal back?”

“It's gone. I think. It's not where I found it. I'm so fucking paranoid someone's going to come into my house and find all this shit that I have nothing to do with. I feel like I'm being set up!” He's pulling at his hair, his voice wobbling.

I have no idea if he's telling the truth or not. If he isn't, he's a damn good actor.

“There's something else,” he says reluctantly.

I swivel around to face him, the wine bottle in my hand. I was just about to top us both up.

“What is it?” I ask.

I can tell straight away that he doesn't want to tell me.

I don't move.

“The thing is...” he pauses, looks away from me.

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