The Piggy Farmer (The Barrington Patch Book 3) Emmy Ellis (notion reading list TXT) š
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Louās face was shrouded by darkness, meaning Cassie didnāt have to see her eerie face, thank God.
āIāve been thinking about it for years, and now Iām ready. Like I told you, your mamās in on it. She understands I canāt sit back and do nowt.ā
āWhy didnāt you do it sooner?ā
āBecause it only came to light recently that Lenny fucked up, thatās why. The Mechanic didnāt kill my girl, Vance Johnson did. I convinced myself back then that so long as one of the kidnappers was dead, some form of justice had been served. Now, knowing both people hadnāt been caught? Those coppers were just as clueless as your old man. God rest his soul and everything, but fucking hell.ā
Cassie couldnāt argue there. Dad had well messed up. It was hard for her to cope with his pedestal crumbling. At first, sheād been embarrassed at his mistake, wanted to cover it up, but soon after, anger had taken over. He wasnāt the man sheād thought, and she felt lied to. Duped.
She sighed. āBut the pigs still fucked up back then, and you knew it, Lou.ā
āThe Vance business brought it all back. It was like the scab had been picked off.ā
Youāve picked it enough yourself for twenty-odd years. You never let the wound heal. āSo what do you plan to do, go round running them all over?ā Cassie imagined the shite left on the road, evidence Lou had mown down a copperāthe one whoād kept his mouth shut and turned a blind eye on the Barrington. The man who Cassie needed on her side. Now sheād have to feel out whoever replaced Bob on the community beat and see if theyād take a wedge of money each week to look the other way.
Things were getting more difficult by the day. Why did Dad have to go and die? While sheād allowed her inner monster to rule since the six months before heād passed on, hiding her true self, could she continue to do that now the police were the targets? It was a strange quandary. She broke the law, but pissing about with coppers like this seemed wrongāmore wrong than the other stuff she did.
āBusiness always comes first, Cass. You deal with shit and worry about it afterwards.ā
Dadās voice didnāt bring her comfort like it usually did. She was out of her depth here. Pigs would be swarming the area when Bob didnāt check in, trying to find their colleague. They didnāt warm to one of their own being killed in the line of duty. Theyād pull out all the stops, and that would most likely piss Lou off anā all. Cassie could imagine it now: Oh, theyāre out there looking for a cop killer, but they let my Jessā murderer wander round the country offing other kiddies. If theyād found him before heād legged it, those children would still be alive.
Plus, there was limited time to get the road cleared up. While it was winter, the mornings dark, someone would be out on their way to work soon.
āWhere did you run him over?ā Cassie hugged herselfānot only because it was bloody cold, but for comfort. Did Mam know the method of death Lou had chosen? Had she agreed it was a good idea? Was there some of Bobās brains and blood in the tyre treads, transferring onto the driveway?
Lou sniffed. It was odd seeing her without her usual tartan blanket wrapped around her shoulders, a thick jacket in its place. āIt wasnāt a road. It was the parking area behind the meat factory.ā
Cassieās skin seemed to freeze, and anger boiled, soon warming her up, her face flaming. āWhat? The factory? For fuckās sake.ā She paced, in part to get away from Lou before she walloped her one, and also to think. Her mind raced. This was a right old dogās dinner. She returned to Lou, her fists balled. āOne, he could have radioed in that he was going there, and two, why the hell was he poking around up that way? Did he see you? Like, did you follow right up his arse so he could have also radioed it in that you were there? Heād have seen your number plate.ā
A loud snort came from Louās direction, spooky in the blackness, the hedge separating Mamās from next door a clumpy backdrop. āWhen he took the road to the factory, I carried on, did a U-turn, drove round the back, then ploughed into the fucker as he walked towards me.ā
And you have no guilt whatsoever by the sound of it.
It played out inside Cassieās head. Bob was an okay fella. As old as Lou, early retirement only a few years away. What bad luck to be killed when heād almost finished his stint. āWeāre going to have to go there and clean up. I canāt have any workers seeing blood and whatever in the snow. I assume his brains are on the ground.ā
āI picked up the big lumps and put them in a carrier bag. Joeās pigs will enjoy them.ā
Cassie closed her eyes at the image that presented. Lou getting enjoyment from holding someoneās brain. Cassie opened them again and stared at the shadowed bushes to her right that split Mamās property from the public pavement, lowering her voice. āHow the hell did you manage to get him into the boot?ā
Lou was a wisp of a woman, barely eating since Jess had died, and although she worked on her husbandās farm and must have decent muscles, she wasnāt exactly weightlifter of the sodding year, was she.
āI got by fine, thanks very much. Anger lends a hand when youāre so steaming with it you could explode.ā
Lou came
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