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't kill me,

." The knife's edge pressed deeper into his flesh. "All I want is your

yenne" he stuttered. "Hi

d down at him, the tip of the knif

wife is in London. He

I need h

oaked. "Please

ke a mother to a child who had awakened from a nightmare. "You didn'

of the knife pierced his skin, and he felt a trickle of bloo

police what happened though, couldn't

he admitted. "He w

his flesh, probably recalling, he suspected, the rage she'd felt at the time at not being believed by the police. "But if you'd corroborated my story,

lade was still at his throat and unintent

if I opened my mout

g. His uncle had killed five people to avoid jail; k

life you condemned me to when you didn't tell

let him kil

deftly moved off him and stepped back from the bed. "My beef isn't w

there by her weight and watched as she stepped carefully over the clothes he'd discarded

ve been here, I will come back and cut out

one leg over the wooden sill of the man's bedroom window and

e part he'd played that night, but for thinking th

pe to him and one day she

was yet

s Hibiscu

found and memorized in her search

ntry. In desperation, she'd changed tactics as her time ran out. Since the man's nephew was the

less time she spent in the country, the less chance there would be of conne

and checked that her hair was still pulled smoothly back into its severe c

slowly beginning to embrace black despite the heat, but it was more in the form of 'little black dresses'. Anyon

she reached it, she took a deep br

wanted to do was press the accelerator to the floor and get to the a

ted that

eb had also been a

, the only person who had taken pity on him at

ves, even though the doctors had confirmed that his mother had con

old Autumn and her sister that he'd gone to the UK at fifteen, the only one of his mother's children young enough to accompany her when she'd left Cayenne to work as a nurse there. He had trained at the prestigious Royal Military Academy

uld have done anything asked of him, even helping to burgle

dicted things going

could

xwell himself,