CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE He’d been thinking about that day almost constantly since the girl turned up. It’d been easy to do the most heinous thing imaginable. Too easy. Conditions were primed. He had a fully kitted-out man cave, everything he needed right on hand. It worked better than he’d expected, never having practised or even planned such a thing. He’d acted and then reacted. He’d had everything he needed, and now he had nothing. He’d tried to kill himself last year but couldn’t go through with it. Just as he wouldn’t give himself up. Not because of his buddy; at the end of the day he wasn’t flesh and blood. No, it was because he’d sunk to be the scum of the earth, capable of everything and anything, except hurt her any more than his actions had already done. The truth would come out i

