Page 129 of Liberating Lily

“Good. I’ll be there in fifteen.” There shouldn’t be much traffic on the road at this time of night.

And he didn’t intend to stick to the speed limit.

Harvey snuck back into the room and grabbed some clothes, taking them into the hallway to get dressed. Then he headed out to his car.

Hopefully, he’d be back before Lily woke up.

He just had to hope that she didn’t have a nightmare or anything. It was difficult to leave her. Especially at night when she was more vulnerable.

However, it seemed the doctor was feeling desperate and that meant they might be able to get some information from him.

His phone rang as he was five minutes out, and he answered it. “Sam, the doctor’s still there, right?”

“I pulled back so he didn’t spot me, but his car hasn’t left. However, a woman just turned up in a Bentley. Older lady. Wait, I just spotted Max.”

Max was the man that Ronan had assigned to watch Lily’s mother. Obviously, the older woman was Roberta.

“If either of them tried to leave, stop them. Otherwise, stay well back. I’m two minutes out.”

Suddenly a piercing scream filled the phone, and he actually startled. That was a feminine scream.

“That’s the woman,” Sam said. “What do you want me to do?”

“Fuck,” he said. “Go in with Max. I’ll be right behind you. Be careful.”

As he pulled up in front of the doctor’s house, Ronan pulled in behind him. He and Paddy jumped out of Ronan’s car.

“Where are Max and Sam?” Ronan asked.

“There was a scream from inside,” he explained. “So they’ve gone in. Sounded like it was a woman.”

Ronan nodded and glanced around. “No lights have come on. Let’s go in. Hopefully, nobody’s hiding in the dark calling the cops.”

“Want me to wait out here?” Paddy asked.

Ronan shook his head. “I’ll send Max out to wait. Let’s go see what we’re dealing with first.”

Max greeted them at the door and nodded toward the stairs. “Upstairs in the doctor’s bedroom, it’s not pretty. He’s dead. Throat’s been slit.”

Shit. Who the fuck killed him? Roberta?

“What about Roberta?” Harvey asked. “Was it her? Did she kill him?”

Max shook his head. “I don’t think so. There’s no blood on her, and when we found her, she was just standing there staring at him in shock. She hadn’t been in there very long and the knife is nowhere to be found. Not that it’s easy to get a straight answer out of her. She’s up there with Sam. He’s trying to keep her from leaving. She’s totally lost her mind. If she had one to begin with.”

“Go outside, monitor for any neighbors that look like they’re waking up, or if you hear any sirens,” Ronan ordered. “We’ll go figure out what to do.”

They headed upstairs and toward where they could hear Lily’s mother screeching at Sam.

“What do you think you are doing? Let me go this instant. I demand it. I’m going to call the police and have you thrown in jail for what you’ve done.”

Ronan stepped into the bedroom without hesitation. “And what exactly do you think Sam has done?”

Roberta startled and turned toward them. She didn’t look anything like she had the other times he’d seen her. She’d always looked very put together, with not a hair out of place. Her clothes were always expensive and well-pressed.

But not now. Today, her hair was down in wispy waves. She didn’t have an ounce of makeup on, and she looked even older than her years. She was wearing a pair of wrinkly pants and an oversized sweater that hung on her thin frame.

She looked like hell.