Chapter one

"Mrs Bates I would hate to have to degrade you but if you do not confess the truth I would have to tell my men to torture you" Inspector James said trying to keep his voice calm.

"Tom was my husband, well not my husband but... "Tanya couldn't finish.

How did she get here in the fist place. Why did she do this to herself?

"Mrs Bates please could you just cut to the chase? What happened that evening? you and Mr Tom Bates were alone in that house! there was a murder! I don't know what you are trying to make us believe but it does not follow logic.Dont you see? "Inspector James said again, this time sounding puzzled.

"Inspector that evening, I was in the living room with Tom, some men came in..."

"Mrs Bates I have heard this same thing for the hundredth time this evening... the CCTV recordings do not show that Ma'am. The only two people in that house were you and Mr Bates according to that CCTV record!!!"Inspector James now sounded very very exasperated.

"Noise, Sound of shattered glasses, blood,thats all I remember inspector please you all have to believe me.Tom and I didn't have the best relationship but I couldn't have killed him... I am not that type of person. "Tanya had started screaming now.

what type of person was she though? She didn't even know at this point. She was still trying her best to understand how all the sub-optimal choices she had made had led her to this! She was being interrogated for murder for God's sake. This wasn't supposed to happen. She started to weep again.

Her parents (Mr and Mrs Jones) led St Peter's back at home, She had joined the choir of St Peter's when she was sixteen. She had a wonderful voice, or at least that's what her father said.

St Peter's was a church that was mostly populated by the elderly, so when shiny and fine Tom had walked in that Sunday morning it had been very easy to notice him.

He was the first "crush" that Tanya had, she had trouble concentrating on her father's sermons.

When Pastor Jones had asked her to invite the new comer to his office she had been very pleased to do so.

Tom had also shown quite an interest in her, although now she knew that he would have shown any other pretty girl the same interest, that was just the type of man that Tom Bates was. Sitting there in the uncomfortable interrogation seat Tanya knew that even if she had seen the future and seen how Tom would have ruined her life she might have had still contemplated following Tom.

Hadn't her father warned her? "Tanya you are a sweet girl, you think everyone had the same heart as you do but it is not so my dear girl, at the right time you will find someone and you will, God willing build a family with them to the glory of the lord"The poor man had said.

What had she done then? She ran away with Tom. The worst mistake she ever made.

"Mrs Bates?! Mrs Bates?!! Mrs Bates?!!! "Inspector James and Briggs called trying to get Tanya's attention.

"Yes?"Tanya snapped out of her dreamworld and manged to say.

"I am sorry but this isn't going anywhere we would try to investigate more you can go home but you can't leave the house though"

"We will be watching you" inspector Jones thought he needed to add.