Buying The Virgin Part 1-3

Chapter 94: The Girl Who Was Hunted - Chapter Ten

ELIZABETH

Charlotte nods, relaxing a bit, unfolding her arms. Will regards her, chin resting on his fist.

“You don’t like the Police much, do you Charlotte?”

“Not much, no.”

“Why not? I think there’s more to it than this misunderstanding over James.”

The folded arms are back. “Because on the half dozen or so occasions I ran away from Blessingmoors, every single time, the Police caught me and took me in, and regardless of anything I tried to say to them, delivered me right back there to have the shit beaten out of me.”

Will rubs his lower lip thoughtfully. “So, why did you agree to help us at all?”

“Because Mr Haswell asked me to.”

Will looks startled. “Mr Haswell? Richard here?”

“Yes.”

“What has he to do with it?”

“I owe him.”

Richard doesn’t look up, instead, paying close attention to his lamb in mint.

Will continues. “And you pay your debts?”

“I do.”

“Do you think this pays your debt to Richard?”

“Nope. I reckon I owe him a bit more than this.”

Will pulls a document wallet from his briefcase. “So, Charlotte, about Blessingmoors, I have your file here, taken from the records on the premises at the time it was closed down….”

She looks uneasy, shuffling in her chair. Michael’s hand snakes out, taking hers.

Will continues. “I have to say that it doesn’t look too good. It says here that you were in trouble numerous times for all kinds of petty crimes…. shoplifting.”

“I’m not a thief.”

“That’s not what it says here.” Will waves the file he is holding.

“It’s still not true. How can I have been a shoplifter when they never let us out?”

“So, you’ve never stolen anything from a shop?” Will raises an eyebrow, looking sceptical.

“Well, yes, I did, but it was when I was trying to run. I was a kid. I had no money. I had to eat…”

He says nothing, simply nodding as he writes a note in the margin.

“Drugs….”

“I’ve never touched drugs.”

“Not ever?”

“Not ever.”

Charlotte, already, that Blessingmoors was rife with drugs. No-one’s going

matters. Yes, they were there.

sighs, then scribbles in the

on a warden? On

yes, that bit is true.” She hangs

“What were the circumstances?”

you know. Other times, it…. just kind

you say, ‘You know’….

look like much then. It always ended up with one of the other girls.… or boys.… getting it instead. They’d just

this year for assaulting a customer in

did happen,

were trying to…press their attentions on Charlotte and my wife. Charlotte put

nothing, but pencils in

school records have you listed as disruptive, and

loved school. She’s

my foster family. Yes, it was great

“Why not?” asks Richard.

teach us anything beyond basic reading and writing. I’d got all that by the time I was six or seven, so after that they were just trying to make

I need to ask you about Charlotte, is that according to our records, you now co-habit with two men, Mr James Alexanders and

that

am trying to

“Sorry?”

have a great deal of money from their…. trade… and can afford the best of legal representation. If you have the kind of character that a lawyer can simply discredit

in her eyes at his words,

you think I am

were a child, and you were hungry. Or that your personal arrangements are none of his damn business, then you should be

I have to, yes, I could

“Yes?”

anything else in that

at

“Anything earlier?”

minute. “Yes, there is. You would like

her eyes big.

pushes the file to her, sliding it across the table. “Here, take a look

Michael’s

*****

CHARLOTTE

seeing snatches of words,

paper, an old photograph, tiny, curled up at the corners and badly

red-haired. Her eyes are badly shadowed. She looks ill. On the back, a

*****

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