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The next morning should’ve provided a sense of clarity and a new purpose, but in reality all it had done was make Jack feel anxious.
If he was honest with himself, he knew the real reason for wanting to delay visiting Matt Hulford’s parents again yesterday evening was purely because he knew it would tear them apart. Their world had already collapsed on being told their son was dead — murdered — and the realisation that their model child had been a drug dealer, most likely killed because of his lifestyle, would deal them another severe hammer blow.
Jack had already seen enough lives and families torn apart to last him a lifetime. And that wasn’t even including his own. He didn’t know if he was just going soft in his old age, but the cold, removed ‘simply business’ Jack Culverhouse app
