Tony Hill & Carol Jordan - 02 - The Wire in the Blood by Val McDermid

Author:Val McDermid
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Psychology, Thriller
ISBN: 9780007344734
Published: 1996-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

There was something to be said for delirium. When feverish sweat ran down her face and added another layer to the sour staleness that covered her sticky skin, it meant she could escape into hallucinations that were infinitely preferable to reality.

Donna Doyle lay huddled against the wall, holding on to the chimeras of childhood memory as if they could somehow save her. One year, her mum and dad had taken her to the Valentine Fair at Leeds. Candyfloss, hot dogs and onions, the blurry kaleidoscope of lights on the waltzer, the sparkling jeweller’s window of the city spread beneath her from the top of the Ferris wheel as they swung gently in the cold night air, the neon glow of the fair like a carpet at their feet.

Her dad had won her a big teddy bear, electric pink fun fur with a goofy grin stitched across its white face. It had been the last present he’d given her before he died. It was all his fault, Donna thought, snivelling. If he hadn’t gone and died, none of this would have happened. They wouldn’t have been poor and she wouldn’t have had to think about being a telly star, she could have listened to her mum and stuck in at school and gone to university.

Tears crept out of the corners of her eyes and she beat her left fist against the wall. ‘I hate you,’ she cried, screaming at the wavering image of a thin-faced man who had adored his daughter. ‘I hate you, you bastard!’

At least the incoherent sobs tired her out, letting her consciousness slide mercifully from her again.

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