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you. You’ve been so obsessed with hating your mother and step-father all these years that you’ve really lost it’.
    ‘You don’t know either of them like I do’.
    ‘But I know you and I know how difficult you are. Now can we agree to keep things cordial for Gabby’s wedding?’
    ‘I wouldn’t do anything to hurt Gabby, you know that’.
    ‘Yes, I know’ said Jenny. ‘But after the wedding are you going to put up a fight for me? Or has everything I’ve done to save this marriage over the years amounted to nothing?’
     
    Jeff and Rebecca were on their way to interview Ronnie Wiseman.
    ‘It shouldn’t take us long to get there’ said Rebecca as she drove them out of the station and onto the main A56 Chester road heading south. Being mates with Jeff was enough of a staging post on the road to where she’d like to be with him. She sometimes wondered if he really didn’t see the silent lines of communication she was trying to open with him. If he did then was it women in general he was rejecting for the time being? Or was it her in particular? She spent so much time wondering what the answers were. ‘We’ll go straight round the M60 and into Stockport. Half an hour tops’.
    ‘Good’ said Jeff who was still weighing up what the chief superintendent had said to him. Did he really think that Jeff wouldn’t see through it all? The chief was bent. He knew that now but to what degree?
    ‘It’s getting on for four o’clock’ said Rebecca. ‘Who’s picking Toby up from school?’
    ‘My brother Lewis’ Jeff replied. ‘He’s taking him back to mine and he’ll give him his tea there and sort him out with a bath and then bed if I’m not back in time’.
    ‘You’re lucky to have him’ said Rebecca.
    ‘You can say that again. My kid brother and his partner are worth their weight in gold to me and Toby’.
    ‘Jeff, forgive me if I’m prying but do you really think your parents don’t have much involvement with you and Toby because Lillie Mae was Chinese?’
    Jeff sometimes regretted getting pissed one night and telling Becky all about his family problems. It didn’t always do to mix business with pleasure even though Becky had become a good friend as well as a good deputy and colleague.
    ‘Becky, my parents have always had some pretty disturbing views on race. They were dead against my marriage to Lillie Mae right from the get go and they never gave her a chance even though as you knew she was one of the loveliest people you could ever meet’.
    ‘She was’ said Becky, smiling.
    ‘Mum and Dad have never said so directly but I think their actions speak louder than any words could’.
    ‘How do you mean?’
    ‘Well they’re always going down to my sister who lives over two hundred miles away in Bracknell to help her with the care of her kids and she’s not even a single parent. In fact she and my brother-in-law work alternate shifts so that there’s always one of them at home to take care of the kids. My sister of course is white and my brother-in-law is white. Now I’m only five miles away from where they live and they never darken my door despite the circumstances I’m in as a single parent balancing raising Toby with a pretty demanding job. You work it out’.
    ‘But Toby is their grandson and he’s lost his Mum. You’re their son and you lost your wife at such a young age. You both need them’.
    ‘None of that seems to matter to them, Becky’.
    ‘It must hurt?’
    ‘Well I bother more for Toby than myself’ said Jeff who was speaking only a half truth. His parents’ lack of support did hurt him deeply. He felt very let down. ‘But he sees Lillie Mae’s Mum and Dad a lot so he’s not missing out on the whole grandparent thing altogether and beyond that I really don’t have the time to dwell on it too much’. Except when it’s late at night after Toby has gone to bed and he’s sat there watching TV with a bottle of beer. That’s when it can really get to him. ‘I have