Wanted by Emlyn Rees

Author:Emlyn Rees
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery & Detective, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9781780335544
Publisher: Witnimpuls
Published: 2014-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 30

WALES

Danny Shanklin must have read Ray Kincade’s email twenty times. But in spite of its brevity and the fact that it was written in plain English, his brain was still having trouble processing it and taking the information it contained on board.

Ray had emailed to say he was in the UK, about to break into an isolated farm in a remote part of Scotland where a multiple homicide had taken place. Even though the Scottish cops had made no connection between these murders and the PSS Killer, Ray was convinced they were indeed his work.

He had written:

I do not believe you are guilty of the crimes the papers say. Nor do I believe the PSS Killer is dead. Or in prison. I believe he is near here. In short, I believe the PSS Killer is back.

Everything that had happened to Danny since he’d been forced on the run . . . This last sentence had blown it all away, taking priority in his mind.

All he could now see, as he stared into his iPhone’s screen, was the disbelief in Jonathan’s eyes before he’d been killed. All he could hear was Sally’s choking.

It was as though the intervening years had not happened and he was now back there, tied to that chair with that madman making him watch, while Lexie hid outside in the snowbound woods and listened to her family’s screams.

But as well as taking him back in time, the email, it seemed, had the power to take him forwards, to a future he had dreamed of and yearned for in the days, months and years after his wife and son had been killed. He couldn’t count the ways he had imagined of bringing the PSS Killer’s life to an end. Bludgeoning him, strangling him, decapitating him, stabbing him, shooting him, drowning him, torturing him – doing to him everything he’d done to others, making him pay, beg, scream and die.

But as the years had passed, these crazy, self-destructive fantasies that would not bring Sally and Jonathan back had dwindled, loosening their grip, until he’d seen them for what they were – not a way forward, but a way to prevent him moving on.

But he couldn’t kid himself either. Even though he had made a semblance of a life for himself since, he’d not quenched the thirst for revenge.

Even though a part of him had always hoped that one day the PSS Killer would be brought to account for what he had done, and even though he’d still craved to be the one who made it happen, another part of him – a better part, he’d come to believe – had been grateful that the PSS Killer had failed to surface. Because his not being there had meant that other families had not had to suffer as Danny’s had.

As much, then, as he had wanted to kill the PSS Killer, he’d come to hope that the PSS Killer was already dead.

But not any more. That hope had just been extinguished.

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