‘Me too,’ said Carl.
‘It was all bluff,’ said Sally. ‘You know he went to prison to protect Sean, don’t you?’
‘I wasn’t aware of that,’ said Carl. ‘That all happened before I joined the force, but my boss might have suspected something. Kieran was his first big case.’ Carl waited for one of them to continue. He’d ask questions if he needed to prompt them.
‘Not long after Kieran was arrested, something else happened. May here fell in love with a smart-arse chemical engineering graduate with a lust for money. Bob Butterfield.’
‘We got married. I got pregnant and he got busted for embezzlement,’ added May.
‘He met Kieran inside,’ said Sally.
‘They got out around the same time and came up here. We were both back here by then. I was living with my parents. Sally was leading the good life
