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To make absolutely sure that Eric hadn’t been approached at the gym, she followed his route back to the front door.
He swiped his membership card and left.
She was about to press the exit button when something caught her eye.
Just outside the automatic doors, as he strode out onto the pavement, a passer-by collided with him.
She could see nothing above the waist of either of them, but she already knew what Eric was wearing.
She played it back slowly and zoomed in.
After watching it again, there was no doubt in her mind that the hand of the passer-by had made contact with Eric Gould’s thigh.
TEN
‘What the bloody hell…?’ Kim said as they approached the road to the crime scene.
Traffic was at a standstill and cars were parked bumper to bumper. Crowds of people were heading towards the cordoned-off area as though arriving for a concert. Residents were on their doorsteps watching the commotion.
Bryant slid into a spot on double-yellow lines.
‘Frost wasn’t kidding, was she?’ he asked as they got out of the car.
‘More accurate than most of her news stories,’ Kim observed.
As they neared the entrance to the park, the chaos worsened, and they had to fight their way to the front of the crowd, where she found the reporter.
‘They’re doing their best to contain it, but a few have broken through,’ Frost told them.
‘To the crime scene?’ Kim asked.
‘Well, two officers weren’t gonna stop the hordes.’ She held up her phone. ‘Luckily, I have plenty of footage of the chaos to add colour to my online story tonight.’
‘Yeah, that’ll help the situation,’ Kim snapped.
‘Not my monkey, not my circus. You should have had more people here to fight this off.’
‘Fight off what?’ Kim asked, hearing sirens in the distance. Support, she assumed, but it was going to take some manpower to disperse this lot.
‘The call to action.’
Kim said nothing.
Frost’s face scrunched up in disbelief. ‘You’re telling me you don’t know about the Twitter account?’
Kim fought down the rage that was building inside her.
‘Have you had your head up your ass for the last few hours or were you just taking a nap?’
‘Enlighten me without enjoying yourself too much.’
Frost unlocked her phone as the sirens grew louder. ‘The account name is “Sentinel” and…oh my goodness.’
‘What?’ Kim asked as Frost turned the screen towards her.
‘Well, when I called you twenty minutes ago, he had around one thousand followers and now it’s up to five thousand. He’s going viral.’
‘With what?’ Kim took the phone from Frost’s hand.
