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"And then what?" Wes asked

"I get her out," Kingsley said

"You get her out?" Wes turned to Kingsley "You and what army?"

"I don’t need an ar?"

"Of course not James Bond is vanilla"

"I feel so h his hair "Kinky Ja to rescue Nora Thanks but et the cops involved"

"Call the police if you want her dead By all means, call them They love to blare their sirens so the whole world knows they’re cosley raised his hand and snapped his fingers loudly in Wesley’s ear, so loudly Wesley flinched "Like that The speed of sound is 342 meters per second The speed of a bullet is four times that She’ll be dead before they can even knock on the door I prouarded Everydistance of her One wrong step equals one bullet"

"We have to do so We don’t even knohere she is," Wes said

"I do" Laila sat up and wiped her face "I knohere she is"

"Where?" Wes looked down at her and she saw hope in his eyes

Laila reached up and unclasped her necklace She flipped open the locket and passed it to her uncle

"That room"

"What room?" The redheaded woman leaned over her uncle’s shoulder and stared at the picture Laila didn’t have to look She’d worn the silver heirlooraphs in it better than she knew her own face On one side of the locket was a picture of her grand her mother as a newborn baby On the other side of the locket was a photograph of her grandrandraphs that she looked at from time to time They all seemed to be taken in the sareen curtains She’d asked her grandrandmother had said she would rather not talk about her tirandave birth to her son while in that country He

"Are you sure?" her uncle asked

She nodded "I saw the pictures in Mor you She wasn’t s But it was that room in my locket, the one Tante Elle is in I knoas"

"Søren?" Wes’s voice prompted her uncle to look up from the locket

"Eleanor’s at my half sister’s house She’s at Elizabeth’s"