Chapter 21
Jayden didn’t have Darren’s landline number, or the mobile number of his housemate Rachel, but he did have Darren’s address, and so when he reached the station without reply, decided to try going directly to the house and seeing if he couldn’t persuade someone to let him in. The cabbie thankfully knew where the road was, and when the taxi turned into it, it became obvious why: Darren’s street was a long, straight, leafy avenue with limp-looking birch trees lining the edge of the cracked pavement. The houses were tall, three or four storey jobs, but all looked converted into flats.
Number 92 was a four-storey, red-roofed house with huge gable windows and a scraggly bunch of bushes around a long drive that ran down the side of the building. Darren’s car was absent, but someone e
