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‘You’re not far off forty, Cleo. A fine age, and one to be relished. But are you happy? Because that’s all I want for you.’
But each time he leaves this house I’m certain he remembers the time he left his wife here, and returned to find her dead.
It’s so very hard to let him get close when I think of the pain that is to come.
‘I’ve seen so many sad cases of abuse over the years, yet I’ve never had a real answer to one question. What makes a woman stay with a man who is hurting her so badly?’
‘Evelyn Clarke,’ he says. ‘You are charged that on the 17th August you did murder Mark North contrary to common law.’ That’s it. I thought I was prepared, but it takes all my willpower to stay upright and to stifle a gasp of distress.
The truth is, Cleo, that however close we are to someone, we never truly know what’s in their heart.’
There was one secret that had loomed large between her and Mark, both of them too scared to admit to the other what they had done. And now it was too late.
Was it worth killing him? Did I do the right thing? My brain suddenly explodes with a memory – the sea pounding on the rocks, the cry of a gull as it skims the surface of the water. And a child’s scream of terror. And then I know. Yes. It was worth it.
She was going to sort it for him. It was what she had always done when he had a problem.
She killed my brother. I killed hers. Which of us should die?
