Page 212 of The Hallmarked Man
Tyler Powell
Gran I’m not ungrateful but I’m busy Ive got a job
Dilys Powell
so your happy me being a prisoner in my own house
Dilys Powell
I can’t do shopping or nothing
Dilys Powell
you can forget me leaving you my money after this
Dilys Powell
Ungrateful little bastard
Tyler Powell
ok fine im an ungrateful bastard you’ll be better off not hearing from me then
Dilys Powell
Where are you?
Dilys Powell
I need to know where you are
Dilys Powell
Im bad my knees playing up
Dilys Powell
where are you Tyler
Dilys Powell
Ive called the police
Dilys Powell
tell me where you are im worried
The last message from Tyler had been sent on the sixteenth of June the previous year. Dilys’s final message to him had been sent in October.
However, directly above this WhatsApp chat was another, which Robin, seeing the name ‘Tyler’, surreptitiously opened, scrolling back to the first message, which had been sent on July the twelfth of the previous year.
07700 903361
Gran this is my new number
07700 903361
Gran I got rid of my old phone because I was getting people hassling me on it so you need to use this one for me now. Griff can have it but nobody else, ok?
