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Søren started to s his face once more

"I know a few Jesuits who also have lovers Other men, mostly"

"Do they know about you and Nora?"

"The only Jesuit who knows is the priest who hears my confessions"

"And what does he say?"

Søren s in that smile made her toes curl up inside her trainers

"He says to send her his hen I’ into laughter

"I’, I promise"

"I believe you"

"He’s in his seventies, ht with Eleanor would o out with a bang and meet Saint Peter with a smile on his face"

"I like hio before I went to Rome if God would let someone like me be a priest"

"You told hiht have been one of the more aard conversations of my life But he listened, asked a few questions, asked if my needs could be met without intercourse, which they can I never intended to break the vows of chastity and celibacy"

"So why did you?"

"Let’s siain Fifteen years old and she was already trying to get me into bed I should have taken her up on it, not made her wait for four years for etherand now ti out"

His words, so simple, so sorrowful, hit her like a fist in her stomach

"We can’t think like that" Grace shook her head "You can’t think like that We knohere she is, don’t we?"

"Yes, we do" He pulled Laila’s necklace from his pocket and opened it Grace leaned in close to look at the pictures inside

"Yournext to her They had the sa, the same Nordic beauty He’d even inherited his

"She was Laila looks very much like her My God, I can’t believe Marie-Laure stooped so low to make my niece a pawn in this"