Killing Me Softly

Killing Me Softly

Author: Sandie Jones Listening Length: 8h 48m
Suspense Thriller Read Online

What do you do when love turns deadly? THE PERFECT COUPLE Charlie and Freya used to be the picture-perfect couple. Happy and in love, Freya enjoyed a rewarding job heading up a charity’s fundraising efforts, and Charlie was fast becoming one-to-watch on the London culinary scene—if you couldn’t be them, you wanted t...

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CHARLIE

Charlie puffs out his cheeks as he looks in the bathroom mirror, asking himself for the hundredth time why Freya would lie about not having seen her mother. He swallows away the thought that they’re somehow working together, to set up the narrative, ready for when Marcus Harding’s memory returns.

His shoulders tense just thinking about Anita and her far-reaching capabilities. As if he hasn’t got enough to deal with, she’s stepped in and swung her wrecking ball, as she so often does. But this time, the consequences are further-reaching than even she could possibly imagine.

Opening the medicine cabinet, the Antabuse-tablet box goads him, the warnings on the label the first thing he sees—as if he would ever forget. Vomiting, sweating, chest pains, he knows them all. But it’s the RISK OF DEATH in capital letters that pulls him up every time.