CHAPTER 12
Talk about your life changing in an instant. It was a cliché; something from a book cover blurb or movie trailer. When he woke up this morning, he was a trying-to-go-straight conman whose greatest challenge was finding a job. Now he was a would-be killer, about to stalk and take photos of his victim; an innocent woman who was trying to help him.
Carlene was hunched into a ball under the covers, snoring. He rolled over on his stomach and buried his head in his pillow, but one question pinged around his mind like a ball in a pinball machine.
He’d told Frank that he’d given him no choice, but was that true? Any sensible law-abiding person would go straight to the police. But he couldn’t trust the police not to stuff things up, and he couldn’t expect them to protect him and Carle
