Page 122 of The Boathouse By the Loch

‘David?’ she called after him.

He stopped at the door and turned around. ‘Those London trips …’

‘Yes?’ She didn’t see what relevance that had now.

‘That last trip, a week ago, when you asked me not to come with you …’ He paused, as if trying to gather his thoughts. ‘You weren’t meeting Logan, were you?’

Bonnie saw Gayle, who was milling around outside with the others, step forward and stare at her through the open doorway.

‘Logan?’ She looked at him wide-eyed, suddenly realising that Logan could be out of prison, looking for her. What if he came back to Aviemore, the last place he’d seen her, to find her?

Joe spoke. ‘That’s not possible, David. I stepped out during the hypnosis to find out if Logan is still serving time for the attempted robbery the second time round, which he is. It was a longer sentence. He had a firearm. It will be a while yet before he’s released.’

‘Oh, thank god,’ Bonnie and David said in unison.

David said, ‘I don’t know why … I thought you’d discovered someone from your past, and that was why you didn’t want me to go with you – because you were meeting someone in London.’

She looked at him sheepishly. She’d made a promise to herself that she’d tell them everything, but she couldn’t – not right now. Shehaddiscovered someone from her past in London. It was true. But she wanted to keep that to herself – for Jake’s sake.

She’d found out something by chance on her last visit to London. Eleanor Campbell-Ross was alive. But Jake hadn’t been to visit his wife yet – not since the accident. None of his family had. How would he feel if he found out that a virtual stranger had discovered this fact, and knew Eleanor’s whereabouts, even though she hadn’t actually set eyes on her? David didn’t need to know about that. Neither did anybody else who’d been in that interview room – least of all Jake.

She watched David leave the room without another word, along with his brother, Joe. Bonnie slowly rose from her chair, and as Joe closed the door on all her friends, and the beautiful life she’d had, her heart felt like it had broken into a million pieces.

‘Bonnie, please can you take a seat.’

Bonnie’s eyes dropped from the door to Sean.

She sat down. ‘Are you arresting me now?’

‘No.’

‘But I stole Robyn’s car!’

‘Yes, Joe has filled me in on everything that has been said in this room. When he comes back with the paperwork, you need to read it through and sign it.’

‘Joe is coming back?’ She felt so relieved that one of her friends wasn’t abandoning her.

‘Yes.’ Sean looked around Marnie’s office before fixing his gaze on her. ‘You’ve been through a bit of a session, haven’t you? Rather than taking you back to the station to do the paperwork, we thought that under the circumstances, Marnie would be happy for you to remain here until Joe returns and we wrap this up. He is also going to file a missing person’s report for Robyn Parker.’

‘But her car—?’

‘Robyn is not here to corroborate your story—’

‘But I’m admitting—’

Sean held up his hand. ‘In any case, in the absence of Robyn Parker, her next of kin, Judith Parker, is not pressing charges.’

‘Really?’

‘Yes.’

‘But what about the money?’

‘What money?’

‘The money that David handed over to Logan that I then took out of his car and ran away with?’

‘Joe told me you’d bring that up. David never handed Logan any money.’

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