Thankyou for the reviews on Chapter 1, I didn't expect people to like this!
"Rachel. Rachel, what's wrong?" Eddie asked her in a concerned voice
"Eddie, how many times? Just leave it!"
"No, Rachel, tell me, I can help you!"
"No, Eddie, no one can help me now. It's my problem, it's my fault and I'll deal with it!" Rachel got up and did the only thing she could do to get away from it all – run.
She ran out of the park, up the street, past the pub until she got to her house. She unlocked the door and pushed it open with some force, before slumping down against it on the inside and sobbing.
She cried for Eddie, who she had pushed away and hurt, wishing she could rewind time. She cried for herself, the secrets she was hiding, and how it would wreck her life if anyone ever found out. But mainly, she cried for her daughter, Sophie, who she had left. Maybe if she'd thought his behaviour strange before she'd left Sophie with him, maybe if she'd taken Sophie with her...
"Jack, are you sure? I mean, I can take her, she's my daughter."
"It's fine, Amanda. How long will you be?"
"Only about 10 minutes. There's a bottle on the counter over there, call me if there's anything wrong."
"See you later, Mandy."
Amanda closed the door. She loved Jack, but why she did, she wasn't entirely sure. He'd been the one who made her do this, who made her go round the streets this night.
It was when she got back that she realised what she had done. She'd left her 6 month old daughter in the hands of a maniac. The house was empty. No Jack, no Sophie. No note to explain where they'd gone. Only a small drop of blood on the kitchen floor.
She remembered ringing the police, finding out that Jack was wanted for crimes too horrible to even think about.
Finding out from a neighbour called Louise that she had seen Jack leaving the house soon after she had, with Sophie.
Then the next day, when a baby's body was found. Jack was found nearly a mile away and arrested. She had no one to comfort her, no one that cared.
And the court case, seeing him there, arrogantly denying all the charges. He got sentenced to life in jail, although he could get out. The thought of him finding her scared her to death.
Rachel was sat there, crying for well over half an hour. Still, nearly 20 years later, she was plagued with guilt. What if she'd done this, what if she'd done that?
What if Jack got out?
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