Todos os capítulos de Too Late: She Is Gone With Your Baby: Capítulo 151 - Capítulo 160

Chapter 152. Tea with Mr. WebbVIVIANAria held the box on her lap the whole way back. Both hands. Like a cake she'd been told not to drop. I didn't ask to see inside it. I'd heard enough through the open kitchen window while I sat in the car. Violin. Crying. Rosa saying every Tuesday and Friday.Ethan had sent two more men to sit outside Rosa's daughter's house. They'd arrived before we left. Rosa had stood on her step and waved until we turned the corner."Are you okay?" I said."No.""Fair."We drove.The fields went past. A tractor. A sign for a garden centre. The security car was behind us. Grey people carrier. Two of Ethan's men. Then, after about twenty minutes, it wasn't directly behind us anymore. Something else was.A dark blue car. Old. Tinted windows. It had come out of a petrol station and slipped in between us and the people carrier like it belonged there. I watched it in the mirror. I slowed down and it sl

Chapter 154. Already Written DownARIAIt was dark when Vivian dropped me at the gate. The reporters had mostly gone. Two were left, sitting in a car with the engine running. One of them lifted a camera when I got out. One of Ethan's men stepped in front of me before he could take the shot. Vivian didn't drive off straight away. She wound the window down."Your mother," I said. "Is she..""She's fine. Furious that I'm not there. She'll live." She looked at the box under my arm. "Go inside. Hug your kid.""Thank you. For today.""Don't get soft on me," she said. "I've still got to go and listen to her for three hours."She drove off.The house was quiet. The kitchen light was on. Julian was at the table with a cup of tea. He looked up when I came in. Then his eyes went to the counter. I followed them. A white envelope. Propped against the fruit bowl.Geneline Diagnostics. Private and confidential. My stomach dropped and I

Chapter 156. The Slurp TestADRIANI was forty minutes early for school pickup. I sat in the car outside the gates with Ethan's man in the front seat and watched the playground through the railings. Empty. Then a bell. Then, slowly, children coming out in lines, holding paper things with glitter on.I didn't see Eli for ages. Then I did after  I was almost tired. Last in his line. Bag on both shoulders. Notebook in his hand, not in the bag. He came out of the door and stopped and looked round the gate for Aria. He saw me instead. His face didn't change. Not a smile. Not a frown. He just looked at me for a second, then walked over to his teacher and pointed at me. The teacher checked her list. Nodded. He came to the gate

Chapter 158: Not Alone AgainARIANobody spoke for a long time. Eli read the message twice. His lips moved on pays. Then he looked up at me, and his face had gone very white."What does it mean, the boy pays?""It means a bad man is trying to frighten me," I said. "That's all it means.""Is it working?""A bit."Adrian already had his phone out. "Ethan..""I'm on it." Ethan was at the window with his own phone. "Detective Mensah. Now." Julian put his good hand on the back of Eli's neck. He didn't say anything. He ju

Chapter 160. The Garden StairsELIThe lights went off at eleven forty. All of them. At once. Not a flicker. Just gone. My nightlight went off too. That's how I woke up. Not because of a sound. Because the circles on the ceiling stopped. I sat up. It was so dark I couldn't see my own hands.Downstairs, a man shouted. One of the guards. Then a door. Then feet running. "Eli?" Jules. From the bottom of the stairs. His voice was loud and calm, the way he talks when something is wrong and he doesn't want me to know. "Eli, buddy, stay in your room. It's just the power."It wasn't just the power. I knew it wasn't. Because before the lights went off, I'd been half asleep, and I'd heard lots of men running across the gravel outside, toward the front gate. Lots of them. And somebody shouting fire. And Jules had come to the bottom of the stairs and said "Where are they all going?" and nobody answered.Most of the men had gone to the front. Mum was on the airp