White Bodies: A gripping psychological thriller for fans of Clare Mackintosh and Lisa Jewell. Jane Robins
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This puke is vile, writes Scarlet. His language is so menacing. My X says the same things – he doesn’t want to go on living without me, I am the only woman he could ever love, he thinks I want to leave him. He’s right, I do want to leave – but you know why I can’t. Blood will be shed unless we take control and do something.
I didn’t expect this. Scarlet’s usually the one to calm us down, and tell us not to catastrophise. Also, I can’t think what she might mean – because the whole point is that the Prey don’t have any control, that they are in an impossible situation. So I write in the dossier that Scarlet is just expressing frustration, especially when she uses that ugly word – puke.
Wilf comes into the shop clutching his Jo Nesbo but then he doesn’t mention the book, or say that he’s looking for another one to read. Instead he just stands at the counter, focussing on the reserved-items shelf above my head. I study his arms. He has rolled up his shirt sleeves and I inspect the dark-red hairs on white skin, the square tips to his fingers, the dirt under his nails. I’m about to do my, ‘Can I help you?’ knowing I’m being way too formal – it’s Wilf after all – but before the words come out, he says, ‘I was wondering, Callie, would you like to meet for lunch today? At the Albany?’ I’m not sure that I’ve heard right, and I mumble, something like, ‘What? Did you say lunch?’ But I had
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