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From Dust to Ashes: A scorned Bride Chapter 80
Grey.As far back as I can remember, I haven't allowed myself to get drunk since I heard that Camilla was pregnant, I wanted to be the best father for my baby. Apparently, that’s what thoughtful, responsible, well-adjusted dads do when they welcome a child into the world — drown themselves in alcohol. But then, Camilla had made it quite difficult for me to bond with the unborn child.You get a new car? You steer clear of drinking. A new house? You can't afford to drink. But a new baby? No, then you have to “wet the baby's head.” For me, that meant throwing up in the back of a cab looping endlessly around Marble Arch.Even when Grey told me about Catherine's death, I didn’t drink. I didn’t need to. I just went out and cleared. And no, the hangover didn’t linger, but the guilt’s a different story. That part never left.Then came today. Lunchtime. Two double vodkas. The first time I’ve ever done that. I didn’t even want the buzz so much as I wanted to numb my brain. To erase the image th
From Dust to Ashes: A scorned Bride Chapter 79
Chapter 77Camilla."I want to see the photographs," I said after few minutes of silence.Raphael slid a couple of ring-bound folders across the desk in my direction. “I need to make a call,” he added. “We might be onto something. A woman’s gone missing in Los Angeles—an X-ray tech. Her flatmate hasn’t heard from her in two weeks. Age, height, hair match our Jane Doe. And here’s the kicker, she’s a nurse.”After he stepped out, I opened the first folder and started flipping through the images at a quick pace. Earlier, when I had seen the body, her arms had been placed along her sides. Her wrists and inner thighs had been obscured from view. A self-harmer, maybe? Covered in stab wounds, ones inflicted by her own hand? It sounded implausible. But the timing, the history... it was probably nothing. Just a cruel coincidence.The first images captured the wider scene, bare ground scattered with rusty oil drums, coils of wire, scaffolding poles. The Grand Union Canal curved along the backgr
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Camilla.I’d reached the point where I had to expose Julia and her mother, but first I needed proof. I had to dig up every person they’d silenced over the years. I wanted them behind bars, and my psychology degree was about to pay off.One of the unwritten truths of the National Health Service was that “dead wood floats.” It was a part of the culture, that quaint reluctance to remove the incompetent. And it suited my purposes.I walked into Westtime Mortuary, where the duty supervisor, bald, square-jawed, with pouchy jowls, pulled a face as soon as he saw me.“Who sent you?” he demanded, his tone clipped.“I’m to meet Detective Inspector Raphael.”“He didn’t tell me. No appointment on file.”“Can I wait here for him?”“No, only family members of the deceased can use the waiting room.”“Then where?”“Outside.”His sour scent mixed with stale sweat clung to the air. He looked exhausted, probably had pulled an all-nighter. Normally, I’d have empathy for tired shift-workers, just like I d
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Julia.The second Camilla stepped out of the front door, I felt the air leave my lungs. Like the earth had tilted for a second and thrown me off balance. Her face was the same, but her eyes… they burned with something new. I didn’t have time to think about it before I heard the front gate swing open behind me. My mother stormed down the steps like a woman possessed.“You stupid, useless bitch!” she screamed, her palm colliding with my cheek so hard my head snapped sideways.I stumbled backward, shocked not by the slap, those came easily but by the look in her eyes. Panic. Rage. The kind only a woman backed into a corner can carry.“Mama, what?”She slapped me again.“She’s alive, Julia!” she screamed, her voice cracking. “What the hell are we supposed to do now? Do you know what this means?! Every fucking thing we built, everything we stole, everything we hid, she’s going to take it all back!”I felt my heartbeat rise, my skin prickling under her fury. I reached up and touched my che
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Camilla.I couldn’t stop pacing in the living room, my fingers resting lightly on the swell of my belly. Grey was finally home. The trial was over. Justice, in some twisted, long-delayed form, had prevailed.I turned to Miri, who sat curled up on the couch, watching me like I was a glass vase teetering on the edge of a high shelf.“You’re sure about this?” she asked, her brows pinched together in worry.I nodded, though my heart beat with an intensity I hadn’t felt in months. “It’s time. I need to face Julia and Georgina. I need to look them in the eye and let them know they didn’t break me.”“You’re pregnant, Cam,” she said softly, eyes drifting to my stomach. “They tried to kill you once. There’s no telling what they’ll do now.”“I know,” I said, a small smile tugging at my lips. “But I have a plan. They won’t lay a finger on me.”She stood, walking over, placing her hands gently on my shoulders. “Just... promise me you’ll be careful.”I placed my hand over hers. “Always.”The dress
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Grey.A week.Seven goddamn days behind bars. Cold walls. Colder stares. But every single day, Camilla came.Her face was the only familiar warmth in this place, even with the sorrow in her eyes and the forced strength in her voice. She always smiled when she saw me—even when I could tell she’d been crying. She always touched the glass with her palm like it was skin and whispered, “I will get you out.”But today, the chair across the glass from me stayed empty.I watched the clock. Ten minutes past the visiting hour. Then twenty. My knee bounced like a goddamn jackhammer, and I stared at the door like I could will her through it.But she didn’t come.I don’t know what scared me more—her absence or the quiet that came with it.I leaned my head back against the wall of the holding cell, fingers laced together as I stared at the fluorescent lights flickering above me. That buzzing was driving me insane. My mouth felt dry as chalk. My heart... hollow.“Grey!” the officer called.I stood
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