Layton – a tortured soul
Layton – a tortured soul
Chapter 1
Don' look at me like that; I don' like it!!" His menacing eyes met hers and held the stare - as if burning the message into her brain.
DI Drake did wander why Arthur Layton didn't like people looking at him. She thought for a while...
He had taken a busker hostage, in 2008, and then had shot Alex in the head, sending her spiralling back to the year her parents died.
Now, here, in 1981, she had also met Layton 'back in his empire' - running all the major drug deals throughout the City of London. On this basis, she had arrested him and sent him 'down' to be 'tucked in nice 'n' safe' in prison - or so she thought. Months later, he had been released, just in time, to plant the bomb under the car that killed her parents.
She should have hated him, for she certainly felt a rage of the utmost anger - she'd never felt for anyone before in her life! Yet she found him fascinating! And as the Metropolitan Police's top psychiatrist, she had the real urge to take him 'on' as a new case...
"What had driven a man to such hatred, she thought, "that drove him to kidnap my very own daughter and result in my very own fatality outcome?" that had now, taken her back to the present 1981.
Layton's eyes hid a past life of pain and torture, and DI Drake was eager to find out what was swirling around that head of his that led to his desperate state in 2008.
"Drugs, probably" Alex's mind began to really focus on this 'darkness' of a man
"Drugs take away any connection from reality by intoxicating the brain into thinking that you are invincible. On the negative side, it can lead to desperation and despair if the habit isn't 'fed' continuously...
"Yes - that's it - it must be! I mean he was in his 'empire' back in the day, made his millions which enabled him to continue his drastic downward spiral that led to the events on that cold October day back in 2008.
"But it still doesn't explain the whole phobia of being looked at - it goes way deeper than drugs; I'm sure of it!"
DI Drake knew that she had met the same intensity she had with DI Sam Tyler's case (and that was hard enough) so she expected to be inundated with work - to be able to unravel this 'tortured soul' But for now, she had to stay focused on today's criminal case, at CID, with all her 'imaginary constructs'
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