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‘What do you mean?’
‘Immediately after she told you. What did you do?’
‘I stormed out, cooled off, cleared my head, came to my senses and came home.’
Shit, she was lying.
‘Do you want to think about that and then answer again?’ Kim asked.
Devon folded her arms. ‘Excuse me?’
‘I’m just asking if you’d like to refresh your memory.’
‘You know, I thought you were here to talk about how best we could jointly support Stacey. That’s why I let you in, but your hostility is—’
‘Because I don’t like being lied to, Devon.’
‘How dare you come into my home and call me a liar!’
‘I’ll ask you one last time: what did you do when you left this flat on Monday night?’
‘I’ve told you. I—’
‘Fuck it, Devon. I saw you. One of your neighbours has a camera that captured you giving Terence Birch a good old right hook.’
‘Wh-what?’
‘I don’t blame you for doing that for one minute, but I don’t understand why you’ve just blatantly lied about it.’
‘I have nothing to say,’ Devon said, turning away.
‘And then you got in your car and followed him,’ Kim pushed.
‘I need you to leave.’
‘A witness has identified a small blue car at the scene. We know that car didn’t hit Terence Birch, but the behaviour of the driver caused the accident – and I need you to give me a damn good reason why I shouldn’t go to the person running the case and give him your address and phone number right now.’
‘P-please leave.’
‘Devon, someone is going to pick up this trail. If you have something to say, it’s best you say it sooner—’
‘You think I did it?’ she shouted, eyes blazing. ‘You think I was responsible for a man’s death?’
‘If you won’t tell me where—’
‘Get out of my home now. You’re not welcome here. You can’t even support your own team member, and now you accuse me of this?’
‘I’m going,’ Kim spat, allowing the rage to spill out of her. ‘But don’t you dare fucking say that Stacey’s colleagues aren’t supporting her. You have no idea of the lengths her team is going to to keep her safe. How fucking dare you!’
‘Get out.’
Kim growled as the door was slammed behind her.
Damn it. That hadn’t gone quite as she’d planned.
FORTY-EIGHT
The Black Country Angels didn’t advertise their presence at the edge of the Wrens Nest housing estate. In fact, the premises still bore the name of the Chinese takeaway that had closed more than two years earlier.
