A Limited Justice (#1 - The Craig Modern Thriller Series) (36 page)

“What about the McNamee kids? Do we even hint that we think their mum’s still alive?”

Craig shook his head. “On what evidence? All we have is conjecture and we could start them searching for a ghost. They’ve suffered enough, Liam. Let’s leave it alone.”

“OK. I’ll tell Annette then, just in case she gets the urge to confess all.”

Then he grinned broadly and Craig knew that grin was going to cost him money. He was right; it morphed seamlessly into Liam’s best martyred look.

“It fair works up a thirst being dead you know...but four or five pints should sort it out...”

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On a late November evening in Lecce, three little girls sat chatting and crying in the evening sunshine, as a kind woman told them all about their mother, who had loved them very, very much. She played recordings of her voice, she sprayed her perfume on them so they could smell her again, and she showed them a video of them all laughing, again and again. As often as they wanted her to, until one by one, they fell asleep in her arms.

Fiona would never stop telling them a sanitised version of how Jessie had given up everything, including her own life, to make sure that they would be safe forever. And it wasn’t a lie. It was just a fairy story, to hide the realities of an unjust world that they were far too young to understand.

THE END

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