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“I’m, um, making some local visits.”
“She says any shit about me, she’s a fucking liar. I didn’t touch her.”
I struggled to hold my nerve. “Tyler Jones said he hoped someone had been hurt... was he talking about her?”
“Me mam?! Fuck no.”
“Throw me a line here... I should be screaming blue murder and calling the police.”
“Pretty sure of yourself, ain’t you? What makes you think I’d let you call the pigs on me?”
I dared to stare right back at him. “What are you planning on doing? Keeping me here forever?”
“Dunno yet.”
“You could just tell me what’s going on. If someone’s in danger...”
I flinched as he thumped the wall above my head, convinced I’d made a terrible mistake. Christine’s words smashed around my brain.Dangerous, dangerous, dangerous.
“Like someone likeyou’sgonna help someone likeme.”
I dropped my eyes to the floor, kept my voice neutral but firm. “I know Tyler Jones has history... with women...”
“You ain’t gonna help. You won’t give a shit.”
“Try me.”
“You’re gonna call the pigs anyway, as soon as I let you go.”
“Then what’s to lose?” I chanced. “I won’t say anything about the fight. Jones would never talk, I know that as well as you do.”
He clenched his fists, pressed them hard against the wall on either side of my head, caging me. “I can’t go back inside, not until she’s safe.”
“Who’s in danger, Callum?”
His eyes flashed with surprise at the sound of his own name, and for one tiny moment he was human. The pain I saw in his face nearly took my breath.
“Casey,” he said, simply.
“Casey?”
“My dog. They took her.”
I felt the tension leave my body enough to breathe freely. “You were fighting over adog?”
His face turned sour, as though I’d struck a blow.
“Yeah,justa fucking dog. I said you wouldn’t give a shit. You can piss off now,estate manager.”
He turned his back on me, gathering up a load of strewn clothes and shoving them into a tatty holdall.
I brushed myself down, ordering my thoughts. My suit felt crackly, crumpled and tight. “What are you going to do now?”
“Like you fucking care.”
“Why did someone steal your dog?”
“They didn’t. My stupid fucking mam gave her to Jones while I was locked up, then that sack of shit sold her.”
