The journey to Duckton was filled with silence. Jason Freeman’s only thought was to get to the clinic, as Melanie’s was to get as far away from there as possible. Her plan of finding her family had gone out of the window. The moment Melanie met Jason; she knew that her other business would have to come first. Find the person responsible for her incarceration, the person behind the voice she had heard. Melanie had thought it would have gone differently. She thought there would have been more anger – possibly from both sides, but there hadn’t been. But then, she had to concede, they hadn’t really met; she had only seen him while he was taking this strange woman to town. ‘Where will you go?’ Jason asked. ‘Nottingham, I was going to find my family first, but things… changed,’ she replied as

