By Kate Charles
Professionally, issues are tough in addition. Callie has get entangled with the issues of a brand new parishioner. Morag Hamilton is concerned approximately her granddaughter Alex--a lonely and remoted twelve-year-old with a work-obsessed father and a self-absorbed step-mother. If Morag knew how a lot time Alex spends on the net, she could have much more reason for fear.
Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Neville Stewart attempts to place his own difficulties on carry as he offers with Rachel Norton, a pregnant younger girl with a lacking husband. With the start in their first child just a couple of days away, why may Trevor Norton exit strolling and never go back?
Trevor's disappearance will not be what it kind of feels. simply whilst Neville thinks he is solved it, another person is going lacking: younger Alex Hamilton.
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Excitedly she’d attempted it, purely to be upset through a recorded message at the different finish. now not to be had. go away a message. She’d left a message. Granny hadn’t rung again. this present day she had a good extra compelling cause to speak to her grandmother. in class she’d had an come upon together with her step-cousins, the odious Beatrice and Georgina. frequently she controlled to prevent them, yet this present day they’d stuck her off her shield. She’d been sitting on my own at a desk within the eating corridor, having a pipe dream approximately Jack, while they’d sneaked up at the back of her. Their selected scoffs and torments were as ordinary: all approximately her mom. It disenchanted Alex, and it made her believe responsible. She’d been so busy considering Jack that she hadn’t provided that a lot proposal to her mum and what kind of she neglected her. and will or not it's real, these terrible issues they acknowledged approximately Mum? was once her mom lifeless? Alex had no confident evidence that she wasn’t. Granny, she’d stated to herself. Granny will recognize. Granny will inform me the reality. This time she used to be in good fortune: Granny spoke back the telephone at the moment ring. ‘Alex! ’ acknowledged Granny, sounding overjoyed. ‘How are you, lovie? It’s been method too lengthy because I’ve visible my wee lass. ’ Alex couldn’t aid herself. ‘I left a message the day before today. You didn’t ring me again. ’ ‘But I did! Jilly stated you have been too busy to return to the telephone. ’ Oh, the treachery of it! Alex was once speechless for a number of seconds, crushed by way of hatred for Jilly and her complete terrible kin. ‘She’s a liar! Jilly’s a rotten liar! ’ Granny didn’t say whatever, so Alex went on. ‘Granny, am i able to ask you anything? ’ ‘Of path. ’ ‘My mum. ’ The phrases got here out virtually on a sob. ‘Tell me the reality. Is my mum lifeless? ’ ‘Dead? ’ Granny sounded surprised. ‘Oh, lassie. after all she’s no longer. ’ ‘You’d inform me if she used to be? ’ ‘I’d inform you,’ promised Granny. ‘Then why,’ Alex demanded, ‘hasn’t she written to me? Or e-mailed me? Or come to determine me? Or something? My mum loves me. If she was once alive, how might she just…ignore me like that? If she’s now not useless, then the place is she? ’ ‘Oh, Alex, lassie. ’ there has been a protracted silence, then Granny spoke slowly, as though she have been identifying her phrases with detailed care. ‘Your mom is alive. yet she’s…not good. ’ ‘She’s loss of life? ’ It got here out as an anguished cry. ‘No, no. She isn’t well…in her head. ’ Granny took a deep breath. ‘You and your dad—well, you have been her complete existence. She loves you either quite a bit. And while she misplaced you…she just…couldn’t cope. ’ ‘Are you announcing that Mum is loopy? ’ Alex requested baldly. ‘She’s…not well,’ repeated Granny. ‘But she’s being good taken care of. ’ ‘She’s in a loopy residence. ’ As Alex positioned it into phrases, she knew it used to be precise. If she wasn’t lifeless, what different cause may there be for her mum to not touch her? ‘They don’t name it that, after all. It’s a kind of personal health center. ’ Alex’s international reeled. ‘Have you visible her? Talked to her? ’ there has been one other lengthy pause. ‘I attempted to. She’s now not allowed to have viewers. yet I do be in contact with…her . The medical professionals imagine she will be getting a wee bit greater. ’ Alex groaned. ‘Why didn’t Dad inform me? Jilly continually attempted to make me imagine that i used to be with them simply because Mum didn’t wish me.