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Aiesha put her hand out for the dog’s lead ‘Give ’

The laring at her ‘Get away from me’

She took out her purse with hands that were shaking so badly several coins fell out as she opened it ‘Look, I’ll pay you Here, take this It’s all I’ve got on ’

The ree dog It’s twelve years old and has teeth ’

Aiesha was shivering and sick and her head was pounding so badly she felt spaced out and light-headed It was as if she were looking down at herself fro and pleading with the

But then another person appeared in the alley, his voice so familiar as he called out her na hysterically ‘Ja’

‘What on earth’s going on?’ Ja his coat to wrap her inside it against the strong wall of his chest ‘Hush now It’s all right I’m here’

‘He’s going to hurt it’ She clutched at his shirt lapels in desperation ‘You have to stop hi to kill it’

‘That lady is crazy!’ the , then she tried to buy it off me’

James kept one hand on the back of Aiesha’s head while he spoke to theto har’

‘It’s ,’ theout He doesn’t like walking on the lead But if I let him off he runs away from me and then I will be the one killed, oui?’

Aiesha looked up at Ja?’