Angel of Death
“Linda opened it. She was still wearing her dressing-gown and slippers, as if she hadn’t got dressed all day. She put a hand to her mouth, looking from Jim to Amy with a mix of hope and fear in her eyes. Her sleeve slipped down, exposing a hand-shaped bruise on her wrist. Another bruise showed faintly through a thick layer of foundation cream on her cheekbone. Jim felt a spark of anger at the sight. He despised men like Ron Kirby – men who seemed to enjoy nothing more than hurting the ones they ...were supposed to love. He would have liked to haul Ron down to the station and fling him in a cell. But he knew it would make no difference. In his experience, women who’d been physically and mentally beaten down for as many years as Linda rarely, if ever, pressed charges.‘What is it?’ Linda asked through her fingers. ‘What’s happened?’‘We’d like to get your opinion on a couple of things that may or may not concern your daughter, Mrs Kirby. Can we come in?’Linda glanced up and down the street as though searching for someone, before motioning for Jim and Amy to come inside.MoreLess
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