Twisted The DS Lasser series. Volume four.: A compelling DS Lasser thriller by Roughley Robin

Author:Roughley, Robin [Roughley, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2014-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

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Sarah ran beneath the trees; her clothes sodden, the sky spinning above. Her mind full of Erin's bitter accusations, and no matter how she tried she couldn't shake them. Then again, they summed her up nicely; she knew it and that knowledge only served to make her anguish deeper, keener. She knew the police officer had given up chasing her, after all why bother, what was she to him, a nothing a nobody?

She stumbled, her foot caught a tree root close to the surface and she fell, sprawling hard to the ground, groaning as she felt the pain in her ribs flare. Rolling onto her back, Sarah felt the rain falling onto her upturned face, but there was no cleansing here, no way to shut out the truth. Erin was right, she was self-centred, conceited, her best friend had lost her husband, and it had all been her fault.

Sarah's tormented mind rolled back the years, the boy in school that Erin had really liked and Sarah had stolen from under her nose; blaming him saying that he'd come onto her when the truth was the exact opposite. Erin had been crushed and for a while they'd drifted apart. Sarah had lost her virginity to the same boy a few days later, it was all over the school and she'd felt ostracised, labelled the schoolyard slag. Erin had approached her, as she stood alone in the schoolyard and after that they had been inseparable. Bridesmaids at each other's weddings, closer than sisters, true friends and now the relationship was in tatters. Sarah closed her eyes and started to cry, her life was a shambles, and now she'd lost the only good thing in it.

When she heard the branch snap Sarah bolted to her feet, the light beneath the trees appeared subdued, the shadows lengthening. Spinning around in a panicked three-sixty the fear reared in her mind, threatening to swamp her.

'It's OK.' The voice whispered.

Sarah snapped her head to the left, hands forming fists, a muscle in her left leg twitched, as she got ready to run.

'I won't hurt you.'

He was standing fifteen feet away, hidden by a thick bank of a shadow cast by a huge oak.

'Who are you?' she whispered.

When he stepped forward, she felt her legs buckle as she collapsed back down to the forest floor.

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