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Caroline’s Volvo bumped out onto Station Road and accelerated away, Dexter beside her in the passenger seat. She’d told Aidan to get a message to the surveillance officers to keep their distance from Sophie, so as not to spook Gareth Butler. The last thing they wanted was for him to realise they were on to him and either kill Alex — if it wasn’t already too late — or take drastic measures on himself.
Caroline was sure that message hadn’t been sent by Alex, but by Gareth himself. And that meant Sophie was next.
Heading in on their own was a huge risk, and the potential fallout either way could be catastrophic. The instinctively logical move would be to get local officers to the scene as quickly as possible. Lincolnshire Police had a station in the centre of Stamford, and officers from
