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‘If ever there is any kind of trouble, I want you to coet you’

What a strange and twisted turn of fate that the very house that is meant to be a safe house for him and me, will end up as the most unsafe place for him

It is dark and things don’t look the saht of day, but one by one the lande Shell gas station Vauxhall tube station NCP carpark Railway crossing Weepingtree in the Seven-Eleven carpark Block of Council estate apartments

The an our journey, I spot the row of industrial looking warehouse and mechanics The area is badly lit and isolated My father picked it because it is a place that you’d struggle to find without directions It is also a place he is not known A rough, depressed place where poor people live and work We pass foraging foxes near soroup of kids drinking and s

The roads are bad, filled with pot holes and I slow right down as I don’t want to go past the entrance and have to double back The more invisible we are the less attention ill attract I peer worriedly out of theAll these storefronts look so similar in the dark Dimitri said the tranquilizer would keep my father out for up to three hours, and since it’s now been an hour-and-a-half since it was ad and secured before he comes around

‘Here it is,’ I announce with relief as I spot the narrow doorway I fish into ave ht

I tell the hts towards the entrance door The heavy lock looks rusted and I pray that the key ork With a little persuasion the key goes in and thankfully turns I have to use my shoulder to open the heavy door and then step inside I shine ht switches and pull them

Yes!

Bravo Papa You paid your bills

The lights are not wonderful, but adequate and I start looking around for the door to the basement that he said was virtually soundproof I spot it at the far end of the warehouse The door is locked, but I find a key in my bunch and I open it The air smells daht switch on the left of the door I turn it on

It’s eerily silent I take a few steps and nearly screah, rats Cobwebs catch my hair and send a shiver downtime I duck my head and see that the rooe, a cupboard, a bed, chairs, tables Everything you could possibly need for a week’s stay

I go back outside and wave to themy father from the trunk, I reach for the rucksack that I placed in the car earlier in the evening

I watch as they each take an arm from the inert man and wrap it over their shoulders Then they rush hi body rest against a timber beam

‘What do you want us to do with him?’ Kiri asks

‘Down here,’ I call as I ht of steps I turn around and watch theo My father’s body buhness horrifies ht that is

‘Where next?’ Kiri asks, standing next to my father’s body His voice is loud as it echoes and reverberates around us

I scan the cold concrete rooain ‘Put him on the chair and tie him up securely The ropes are in the rucksack,’ I point out

‘Okay, Miss Evanoff’

I look at my father as he sleeps on the chair and I a forrasp ei And er Don’t be fooled, Tasha Behind that peaceful sleeping face lies the heart of an evil monster