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POLICE

And you didn’t see anyone else enter or leave the Beach House?

LP

No.Shekilled him! Ask her! Go on!

POLICE

The thing is, Mrs Page. She tells us exactly the same story as you, with one important difference. She saysyou’rethe one who killed him.

Chapter 42

Louise

It is the way she makes his coffee that gives it away. She doesn’t ask him how he takes it, she simply makes it with the merest dash of cream and two sugars, exactly the way Andrew likes it, the kind of way you would only know if you had done it many times before, the kind of way you would do if you knew someone intimately.

As I watch her hand him the cup and saucer, I know, in that second, and without a shadow of a doubt: Bella was telling the truth when she said it was Taylor in trouble, not her. And the father, the predatorymarriedfather who got a seventeen-year-old schoolgirl pregnant, is Andrew.

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