His Silence : His Silence - Chapter 85 by Jacob1395 |
My heart races hard against my ribs. I stare at her, open-mouthed. She’s bluffing. Perhaps she’s overheard me talking about him. I should’ve been more careful. She could’ve been standing outside while I was talking to Callum about him in Eve’s room. ‘Who?’ I say, running my tongue over dry lips. ‘Oh, please don’t play games with me,’ Mary snaps making a tutting noise. ‘Callum’s told me everything.’ My blood freezes. I turn to Callum. He’s staring straight at Mary his eyes wide. He told Mary, he told her I was in contact with Max. My heart sinks. I thought, I thought he’d come back to me, I thought we were on the same page again. Callum shakes his head. ‘I . . . I don’t know what she’s talking about,’ he splutters. He turns to me. ‘Danielle, please, I –’ ‘Oh, of course, he wasn’t aware what he was telling me,’ Mary says, smiling. ‘I’m quite skilled in the art of hypnosis, you know,’ she says, beaming, like she’s taking great pride in telling me. Hypnosis. I think back to how Callum gradually began to change. Was she . . . was she hypnotising him, all this time? ‘How . . . how . . .’ Mary swats her hand and I close my mouth. ‘What I want to know, Danielle is what you’ve been talking to Max about, and please, I wouldn’t try to lie, don’t forget, we know where your parents live, and we know where Max lives, so it wouldn’t be too hard to pay him and your parents a visit.’ My heart screams in my chest. It’s all over. ‘Um . . . he . . . I.’ What the hell do I say? ‘I contacted him because he . . . he did a podcast on my family’s murder, a couple of years ago.’ Mary sighs. ‘Oh yes, I know all about his podcast, we had to get him to take that down, he was getting too close, you see, unlike some of the other nutters who’ve been interested. But it seems he didn’t seem to heed our warnings.’ I shake my head, tears spiking. ‘This is my fault, I dragged him into this, I asked for his help . . .’ ‘I know that, Danielle,’ Mary says. ‘Now what do you know?’ Perhaps I should just come straight out with it. She’s going to kill me like they killed Noah; I’ve got nothing to lose. ‘Is my brother innocent?’ I ask, keeping my voice steady. Mary seems to stare at me for a long time. ‘Is that what he told you when you went to see him in prison?’ I swallow. ‘He asked for my help,’ I reply. ‘He told me he started getting memories back and . . .’ Mary sighs and shakes her head. ‘Stupid boy,’ she murmurs to herself, rolling her shoulders back. ‘I believe, though, Danielle, that you’ve failed to answer my question.’ ‘I know about Oliver’s half-brother, Gavin, he’s the other man who Harvey supposedly killed.’ Mary places the tips of her two middle fingers together, dropping the knife into her lap. ‘Well, you have been busy. He was meddlesome just like you, I said years and years ago to Oliver we should never have allowed your parents to stay here, but he was insistent, just think though what might never have happened had that been the case.’ There’s a glint in her eyes as she speaks. I shrink back. ‘What do you mean?’ ‘Did you know Oliver’s your biological father?’ My stomach drops. Beside me Callum stiffens. ‘What, you’re . . . what the hell do you mean?’ ‘I mean, he’s your real dad, Danielle. He was so in love with your mother, much to my dismay, one night, nine months before your arrival, he and your mother spent the night together, I don’t think your mother and Harvey’s father were getting on at the time and there’d always been a spark between your mother and Oliver. He confessed this to me.’ I’m shaking. I want to be sick; somehow I manage to hold it down. ‘Why would he tell this to you?’ She picks up the knife again, smiling. ‘Well, did you know I was Oliver’s therapist years ago? That’s how I first got to know him and, I’m afraid, how all of this began.’
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