His Heart Her Secret

y overhead. The air smelled of burnt firewood and something earthy fresh, yet unfamiliar. Her

partment. She wasn'

h a warm bowl of soup, startled when she saw Maya awake. "Oh, thank the heavens," the woman said in a thick

reath hitched. "Wher

e is Mama Elsie. You were lucky to escape, they said you ran through

en... screaming, her fight to break free, the sharp sting of branches against he

en it

vi

city, Liam w

te investigators, and had half the Lagos police force on silent alert. Maya had vanished like smoke, and her

verwhelmed and needed space?" she offered, placing a

ld never disappear without

the first time, and he

... guilty. But then she smiled. "Liam, I know y

nymore. His instincts were

lip of a van headed toward rural towns outside the city, Lia

eeded to