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Alex Lawson was thinking of nothing other than kicking Charlie Ford’s head in. If the police weren’t going to take him seriously and arrest the scumbag, what other choice did he have? In any case, choices weren’t looking like a luxury when it came to dealing with Charlie Ford.
Alex pulled his car up on the country lane and looked again at the message on his phone. Charlie’s taunts and threats had been clear: He wanted Alex to know that he wasn’t the only one who’d been having his fun with Megan, and that he was perfectly willing to let Sophie know that too. It was a message that had enraged Alex and, he felt sure, was designed to stop him from urging the police to investigate Charlie. But if Charlie thought that’s how Alex was going to react to threats like that, he could think again.
