It was pitch black and the rain was falling horizontally as Aria drove out of the driveway and into the eerily desert streets. She would be glad to get back to her flat tonight for a long soak in a hot bath. So many scenarios had raised in her mind and add it to them now was the new news that the former DCI had looked after financially when she was a forlorn little girl after her own mother’s murder. Sure it was possible if he was riddled with guilt for him to stick a few quid in a bank account for her to access when she became a teenager. But would a man in his position really knew do that? She wouldn’t tell Adrian about her latest theory just yet. Her got instinct told her that Thompson new more than about her then he was letting on really.
Driving out of the village she was conscious o
