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"You swore to me the time you had sex with her was a ave in to temptation, and I believed you! I’ and beautiful she was and how you looked at her but that was just temptation It was just sex It was me you were in love with Me and you forever, that’s what you toldI ever did, I did for you"

"I do love you," he reassured her, like you would a child "I’ve always loved you"

"Shut up," she screa the knife wildly The police hovered expectantly but seee now that Eed, and they were obviously nervous about intervening until she’d said her piece

"It’s lies all of it I heard you when O’Connell caht you wouldn’t have stayed after Emily left if you didn’t love ood-bye Going somewhere to start a new life I waited in the car like you toldyou’ve ever told ht her with you It wasn’t me you wanted to start a new life with, it was her"

She was as fucked-up and obsessive about Frank as he was about E deserved each other

"Did you ever love me, Mum?" Emily asked Her mum turned with a jolt to face her, and it was alotten Eled when you were born for a long time They call it post-natal depression now, but your dad took care of you when I couldn’t By the time I started to feel better, you and he had a bond I couldn’t share Maybe I shouldn’t have let Frank knock you around as much as much as I did, but you don’t understand howhim, and when you found O’Connell, I saw a chance for ain and still keep Frank I know that you were upset when I lied in court but I knew you’d be okay You had O’Connell to look after you"

"Oh Mum, why didn’t you choose me? I needed you so badly when dad died You let Frank beat and rape et aith it How could you?"

"You never needed me, Emily And you never will now I just hat you two have together Is that too ly but I felt nothing but revulsion

"We do have that," Frank told her "We can still have it"

"No, Frank I can see what you really want now It’s too late for ivefor her"

"Don’t do anything stupid Now put the fucking knife down," Frank shouted angrily

Chapter 24

"Tenty-three Brecan Road, Canning Town," her aret, no!" screa about

"It’s the flat he took Euess He rents it undera scam with some of hisbusts and seizures Frank fences it through his probation clients"

"You stupid fucking bitch After everything I’ve fucking done for you, you fucking betray htly

"After everything you’ve done for reat?" she asked