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‘Jasmine remembers you. Precious, Abigail and you were all in the same class, weren’t you?’
I like Mia's confrontational personality. She doesn't beat around the bush and she doesn't wait a long time. She just asks the person directly, no fluff ~Z
Perhaps I’m the one who needs therapy, not Mia.
Um yeah LOL ~Z
There’s something familiar about his writing, the way he has formed his M, the backwards S and the two bars through the centre of the E. I continue flicking through the book, and then another, trying to recall why the handwriting is recognisable.
I'm gonna guess it's the writing she found in the house about saving the kids in the attic ~Z
I honestly don’t know how to handle her.
How about taking her seriously? ~Z
She’s not listening.
Uhhh seems like you're the one not listening.. ~Z
‘You don’t expect us to let you take him with you, do you? Part of the condition of you moving away is that you leave my grandson behind.’
Debbie continues to be an insufferable b*tch ~Z
At least until a few days ago, when I contacted the news desk of The Sun on Sunday to tip them off anonymously about Finn’s double life.
That's actually really smart lol ~Z
The fracture to the wrist could have occurred in relation to a fall or struggle around the time of death.
I feel like this is mystery pov's parents or grandparents ~Z
‘Then we need to get out of here. What’s your name?’ ‘Dave,’ he says. ‘I’m Debbie,’ I offer.
THIS WHOLE TIME IT WAS DEBBIE??????~Z
While it was widely reported that Hunter believed he was suffering from terminal cancer, an autopsy revealed his condition to be a treatable stomach ulcer.
Damn... He really could have just lived... ~Z
I’m sure she actually wants me to see her with Finn, the little bitch.
Unhinged... ~Z
My only regret – aside from causing the events that led to George’s disappearance – is shaking Mia’s ladder to distract her from urging Finn to open those suitcases.
Omg... Everything is her fault ~Z
All I want is for him to be able to enjoy his innocence for as long as possible, and not have his childhood corrupted. I don’t want him to grow up like I did.
Why is Finn acting so sus... I feel like Debbie's apprentace was prolly him ~Z
Anyway, a week ago, Tanya’s body was identified as one of the warehouse suitcase victims, but William was not among them. This appears to be the only time Dave ever deviated from his pattern of kills.
Finn?? ~Z
‘No, Debbie came an hour ago while you were asleep. Said she was picking up Sonny for Finn.’
FUCK ~Z
Suddenly, everything inside me calms. The anger, the frustration, the shock, the upset, the longing and the spite – they all disappear within the time it takes to slowly turn Sonny’s pushchair around to face them.
I'm gonna kms ~Z
She turns her head and looks a few feet away to where she buried Dad’s ashes. It’s only then that I see it. A neatly folded set of baby clothes inside a shrink-wrapped bag placed upon the ground.
Oh my God, someone choke Debbie PLEASE ~Z
His mouth is close to her ear and he is saying something to her, but his voice is too low for me to make out the words.
I wanna know what he saiddd!!! I still feel like Finn might have been her sidekick in that one chapter. Like she was teaching someone how to kill right? Anyway, maybe he knew the whole time it was Debbie but only got angry when he found out she wasn't his mom, and also for taking Sonny cuz he didn't think she could do that to him ~Z
My instinct is to gasp for air and try to grab at his arms to push him off me. But I fight that impulse, not my son. I don’t want him to stop. I’m ready to die.
She does not deserve to have that pleasure ~Z
‘This is what you’ve always wanted, isn’t it?’ he hisses into my ear. ‘Another generation of killers in the family.’
My darling, I whisper to myself. I’ll be with you soon.
YOU WISH BITCH ~Z
‘It was two years ago today when you discovered your mother-in-law, the now-infamous multiple child killer Debbie Hunter, was also responsible for the disappearance of your little boy, Sonny. And you have been working with police artists to come up with an image of how you think Sonny might look now?’
Oh my God they couldn't find him?? ~Z
‘The best-case scenario is that Debbie gave him away to punish us and that he’s being raised by someone who loves him,’ I reply. ‘And while that breaks my heart, at least it means he is out there. But based on what we know about the extent of Debbie’s previous crimes, there is every possibility that he’s not. There have been no confirmed sightings of Sonny at all since he vanished, and the police have no evidence to suggest he is alive or otherwise.’
I wonder if that person that Debbie was training back in the day took Sonny? Maybe that person had a hard time having a baby or something, but that person was never addressed, so if Sonny is still alive, I assume that would be the only person Debbie would have entrusted Sonny with ~Z
He leans towards me, his voice low but pointed. ‘What kind of mother teaches their son how to kill?’ I’m unsure what he expects me to say. He was a teenager when we stopped working together for a common goal. I know that he made the choice not to continue, but it’s unfair to throw it back in my face and suggest what we did together was so wrong.
I KNEW IT!!!! ~Z
‘What?’ He laughs again. ‘You take our son away from us and you’re still blaming Mia for turning me against you? Listen to yourself. You are responsible for all the shit that’s happening to you in here. And while Dave didn’t physically kill anyone, he was just as guilty for enabling you. You call me weak around Mia, but he was pathetic around you.’
TELL EM' ~Z
‘I did. I gave your appointment diaries to the police.’ ‘But not because you disapproved of what I did. When you found out you were chosen—’
CALLED IT!!!!!!! ~Z
‘If you don’t keep coming to visit me, I’ll make sure you never receive another new photograph of Sonny again.’
OMG HE'S ALIVEEEE!!!! ~Z
I didn’t recognise my sister Debbie when I first caught a glimpse of her on the television screen.
GEORGE!!!!! WTFFF IS GOING AWNNNNN!!! ~Z
And the bond we once shared rapidly rose to the surface, as strong as it had ever been, despite our distance. Instantly, I wanted to protect her.
No sir George, do not protect her please!!! Well, at least we know where Sonny is now ~Z
I recalled how, for years, I moved from town to town, never settling anywhere and always preferring my own company. And how eventually I saved up enough money to buy an island of my own. I’d never married or had children.
Oh yikes, they never gonna find Sonny on a private island ~Z
Debbie admitted shortly that, after she married Dave, she discovered he too possessed a dark, cruel side, a relic of his own atrocious upbringing. He often became violent towards her for no reason but she believed that she could change him. They tried for a family but failed to conceive, and eventually, specialists informed them he was infertile. He took to drink and made her life hell. But everything changed when, one day, he appeared on their doorstep with a baby boy. ‘He wouldn’t tell me where he found him, only that he was now ours,’ she recalled. ‘I begged Dave to return him, explaining
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DEBBIE YOU A BITCH TILL THE END AREN'T YA WTFFFFF ~Z
‘I was his wife. I was aware of how cruel and manipulative he could be. I should have known what else he was capable of. Instead I buried my head in the sand to try and make my marriage work and to provide a safe home for Finn. If only I’d had you to turn to. If only you’d come back sooner, then you could have protected me like you did before and things could have been so different for me. For the both of us.’
SHE IS SO MANIPULATIVEE UGH I HATE HERRRR ~Z
‘Are you looking for sympathy?’ he asks. ‘Wrong audience.’
LOL REAL ~Z
I recognise the figure immediately and the bottom falls out of my world.
GOOD! SUFFER! ~Z
I took the first boat I could catch to Fraserburgh and then I drove to Milton Keynes for a clandestine meeting in a hotel car park. There, she broke down and told me what she had learned about Finn – she had unearthed diaries kept hidden by Dave for decades that revealed how Finn had known all along about the murders his father had committed, and he had even accompanied him on abductions and kills.
GIRLLLLLL ~Z
Finn’s fingers tap the screen again and, now, George is lying on something white and wooden, his head tilted to one side, his eyes open, and streaks of blood line his face. I clamp my hand to my mouth but it’s not quick enough to suppress a cry. The third and final image is a video clip that lasts just seconds but breaks my already fragile heart.
NOT GEORGEEEE I WANTED TO LIKE HIMMMMM ~Z
He didn’t think like us, did he?’ Finn says. ‘He wasn’t as careful as you and I would’ve been. Over the last two years of taunting me with photos of my son, he left fragments of info here and there in the background about their lives. A section of a car registration plate, a partial shop sign, a radio transmitter in the distance, a hill with an unusual-looking peak . . . there are plenty of amateur desktop detectives on Twitter who have been more than willing to help a stranger solve a puzzle. Then all I did was turn up in the town and ask a few questions. He wasn’t hard to find.’
To be fair, Debbie kinda made Finn into this LOL She once again, got her brother killed.. the irony!!! ~Z
She’s becoming trapped within herself and she deserves every moment of that living hell.
Agree ~Z
Not until he’s much older than he is now. Not until he is ready.
It's just a cycle. Debbie went through it with her family and now Finn and then Sonny no doubt... how messed up.. ~Z
