“Everything all right?” Tarja asked, following me to my room. “You look strange. Did you fight with Elgin?”
“No.”
“So what?”
How to explain all this to her?
I bit my lip still staring out the picture window. My neighbour was playing video games.
“Scarlett?”
A wave of emotion washed over me. Everything I had contained seemed to want to rise to the surface. I collapsed on the floor and let the tears flow.
“Scarlett!” cried Tarja, distraught.
Her arms wrapped around mine.
“What’s going on?”
“Minah is dead.”
Tarja was horrified.
“She was murdered, found this morning on a beach in St Andrews.”
She put her hands to her mouth.
I knew I shouldn’t have told her about it, she would see that no investigation would be carried out, that no newspaper would write an article a
