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He fell silent and stared at the pictures in the locket Grace ached to touch him--his hand, his face--but the priest’s collar he wore around his neck and the wall he’d warned her to stay behind kept her fro out to him

"And now the only other woman in the world I have ever loved is trapped in the very same house where my mother was trapped and raped and lived in fear And for the sa me There is no way Marie-Laure did this on her own She has help She has I can’t even think about it"

"Then don’t think about it," Grace said with more confidence than she felt "Nora wouldn’t want us to She’d want us to get her the hell out of there We knohere she is, yes? What’s the plan?"

"Kingsley will atteed me to let him try I couldn’t say no"

"Alone?"

"If anyone can rescue her without bloodshed, it’s hiuilt of his sister’s death for thirty years All this ti it was suicide I can’t ask hiain I won’t"

"If that doesn’t work, if he can’t get her out, is there a plan B?"

Søren didn’t answer

Kingsley ca "Daniel said to coave a cold sort of laugh "He’s an oldfriend, I suppose His late wife and I were lovers before they ot married When she died, Daniel holed up in his house for a few years Took his pet to get hisley pointed at Søren

"You sley

"The very same He lent her to Daniel for a week"

"For what?" Grace wasn’t sure if she wanted the answer

A broad grin crossed Kingsley’s face Søren wouldn’t ic puy It’s the opposite of the Berle Lost sley, that’s enough" Søren glared at hisley said, entirely uncowed by Søren

"Daniel’s an old friend," Søren said to her, ignoring Kingsley "His house is very close to my half sister Elizabeth’s house That’s all that ?" He turned back to Kingsley

"He said Anya and the children are in Montreal for a few days"