Tina Boyd 07 The Final Minute by Simon Kernick

Author:Simon Kernick [Kernick, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery & Detective, thriller, crime, NR1501, Fiction, Ebook Club, suspense
ISBN: 9781448136711
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2015-01-14T22:00:00+00:00

Twenty-seven

It had just turned 3.30 when Tina pulled in behind the Ford Fiesta that Sean had somehow liberated from its rightful owner. She really didn’t want to hear how he’d managed that. On the way there she’d driven past the hotel and the sight of the ambulance and dozen or so police vehicles in its car park had reminded her in the starkest terms that she couldn’t keep her association with him secret any longer. It would only take the investigating officers a matter of hours, if that, to link the hotel’s fugitive guest to her credit card, and then they’d be knocking on her door.

The layby was on a straight stretch of semi-rural dual carriageway, with fields on both sides, and aside from her car and Sean’s, it was empty. Tina got out and walked over to the Fiesta, surprised to find there was no one in the driver’s seat. Then she saw Sean waving at her from under a tree about twenty yards away. She had to climb over a fence to get to him, and as she approached she saw he was looking tired and dishevelled, even though he was wearing new clothes.

‘Thanks for coming, Tina,’ he said with a big smile. He seemed genuinely happy to see her.

‘This can’t carry on, Sean.’

He sighed. ‘I can’t go to the police yet. They’ll never believe my story.’

‘But you can’t keep running. Where are you going to go?’

‘I don’t know, but my memory’s coming back fast now, and if you can locate the psychotherapist who was treating me back at the place in Wales, then I think he can fill in some of the gaps. We used to have these hypnotherapy sessions and I think he was planting false memories in me to keep me confused. You know, I’m still convinced somewhere in my subconscious that Jane was my sister, even though I know in my head she can’t have been. Because I know I had no sister.’ He was talking fast, bouncing on his toes as he spoke, and constantly running his hand through his hair, giving Tina glimpses of the thick pink scar that ran across the top of his forehead, and which had snatched away the first thirty-eight years of his life in one life-changing instant.

‘I’ll see what I can do to find him, Sean.’

‘His name’s Dr Bronson, and he’s in his mid-fifties. Big guy, black hair going slightly grey. Wears glasses. He’s the one who’s been trying to extract the information about the location of the bodies that all the people after me keep talking about, and I assume he’s been doing that under hypnotherapy as well.’

‘And you haven’t had any further memories about that dream involving the girls?’ Tina asked, deciding against telling Sean what she’d found out about Lauren and Jen’s potential work as prostitutes.

He shook his head. ‘I’m sure the women in the dream are the ones whose bodies they’re after, though.’

Tina sighed, and thought of Alan Donaldson. ‘I have a feeling you could be right.

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