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"Any idea how er we have to keep her here? We shouldn’t stay sley started to raise his gun

"Oneon?"

"Hisley froze

"Of course not My brother doesn’t care if I live or die He didn’t then He doesn’t now"

"You sure he even knoe’re here?"

"He knows"

"You want to kill her now? We’ll get it over with and leave the body on his doorstep"

Kingsley held the gun steady The men first, then Marie-Laure He could do this, had done this a thousand tih, all of them Enemies of the state Monsters who made Søren’s own father look like a candidate for sainthood The mercenaries, he could kill them easily But Marie-Laureshe was his sister, no matter what had happened They were blood He’d spent thirty years drowning in guilt because he thought he’d killed her the first tiain, not in cold blood with her back to him But he had to, he had to for Søren He could do this Three shots That’s all it would take Nothing to itonly three bullets

He stared down the gun and saw the end of the barrel shiver

"Non I don’t want to kill her I have a better idea We wait"

The man on the floor by Nora’s head started to rise up The second he stepped fro in the shadows He had only a split second to decide He could make a noise, cause them to turn around and see him They’d fire at hiefor the first tirown up to look so un and disappeared into the rooain? But it was too late He’d lost his chance, lost his nerve Kingsley stayed crouched in the rooain, he opened aand dropped to the ground He ran through the woods and to the car Once inside he picked up his phone and dialed

"Kingsley" Søren’s voice sounded so relieved Kingsley had to blink back tears

"I don’t have her," Kingsley confessed

"She’s alive?"

"Oui She’s alive ButI couldn’t take the shot I couldn’t kill my sister She had her back to me I would have had to shoot her in the back And she said she doesn’t want Nora dead So I couldn’t I killed her before I couldn’t do it again" He leaned his head against the steering wheel "Forgive me"

He heard silence on the other end of the line He died in that silence, died a thousand deaths

"Coive"

"I’ll get her back I’ll find a way There’s two of theht be sleylisten to sley could only nod first before he could speak

"Yes, sir"

Part Four