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Kingsley stopped his thoughts in their tracks He couldn’t think about Juliette nohat she was to him, what the future held He needed to stay calm, rational, if they were to make it out of this alive, all of them And they would survive this He would make sure of it no matter the price to his soul

For two hours he sat and watched the house, waiting for a curtain toat all A wasted trip As Kingsley started to stand, to stretch his legs, he saw soain, he waited and watched

At the front of the house on the second floor, a curtainon Or it could be solass up and stared

The curtain parted and a woman stood at theThirty years disappeared in an instant Long dark hair, bistre eyes, a dancer’s physique

"Ma soeur"

Marie-Laure stood staring out theonto the long driveway She see for sosley had a breath left in his body, he’d make sure the person she waited for never caht

Only Marie-Laure stood at the ever And surely she hadn’t executed Nora’s kidnapping alone If he killed her noould stop her hench

Marie-Laure stepped away frosley lowered the rifle

He had no choice He would wait for tonight, for darkness, and he would go in

Back through the woods he crept, careful to not be seen or heard Once in his car he stopped to breathe Until that moment he saw Marie-Laure in the , he had cherished a shadow of a doubt that perhaps they’d been wrong, that it was so to be her to torture them Now he had no doubts It was her, his sister, still alive But not for long

He started the car and eased back onto the road Although it had been years since he’d been to Daniel’s house, he needed to consult no maps He still rely ssley hada brief trip to New York Although wealthy and with a high-powered job as an attorney, she craved the doer to submit until he had to return to France Soon after she’d er man named Daniel, a librarian without a penny to his naie and Daniel had a house in the country, a retreat a few hours from the city yet less than ten rown up in Ten h away not to tip them off