This is a barn, complete with bales and a tractor and the farmyard smells. There’s a constant drumming noise that I can’t place, but I can’t see any movement. We run to the wooden doors, fling them open, and we’re outside. Fresh air. The rain hits us like a roar. It is pelting down, and I’m insta...
Alice, sitting on a plastic bin in the basement, has got her mojo back and is regaling Lily and Cam. They’d hidden in the coal chute, where I’d told them, and I felt a squeeze of pride when gutsy Cam emerged with a smudge on his nose and a big grin. “She did not kill me, M...