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Although she’d been signed off by the doctor later that morning, it wasn’t until seven o’clock that she was finally discharged and allowed to leave the hospital. By the time they got home, the boys were already knackered from their early start and long day, so Caroline flaked out on the sofa while Mark put them to bed upstairs. She’d barely settled in when the doorbell rang.
She got up, opened the door and was surprised to see Detective Superintendent Derek Arnold standing on her doorstep.
‘Evening. Hope I’m not disturbing you. I heard you’d been sent home, so wanted to see how you were.’
‘Yeah, I’m alright. You know how it is. Come in,’ she said, looking forward to sitting back on the sofa again, rather than spending the next few minutes standing at the door.
‘You’ve got a week of
