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After a long silence between them, he spoke softly “You know I didn’t want you to coht hurt you if he gets the chance He doesn’t know h, not personally Even if he does know my name, he doesn’t know that I’m Hampton’s father”
“You’re right But you can’t expect me to sit at home,” Amara said “I’d die of worry I want my little boy back safe and sound”
“We all do He’s ht No ed theHaaer”
Quint paused for a“It’s you he’s actually after I don’t want to scare you, but you need to knohat you risk and how iuard at all times, even when I’m with you But especially if we ever become separated”
“I understand,” Amara said “I’m not scared I’m determined”
“You’re a warrior” He sently “A beautiful warrior”
Alanced away and took another tiny sip of her drink Her insides were groarh perhaps she shouldn’t have
“Frederik must have known that you would look for hi forward? Was he si to keep Hampton away from you and raise him on his own?”
“I have no idea,” Amara said
“Frederik has had it in for you for a long ti of ways to hurt you ever since you won the Carrington Award The firing was the catalyst that drove hiht would happen afterward What’s his end-game?”
Amara stared out of the hat seemed to be an endless floor of blue textured hite wisps “I don’t know He knows I don’t have a lot of o to the police, and the FBI would get involved By going to Uruguay, the first place anyone would look for him … it’s like he wants to be found, you know?”
“Maybe so But found by who?”
Aine life without Haht of et him back … I don’t knohat I’ll do” Her voice wavered and faltered, eyes burning like fire, a common sensation these days Today it seemed she had no tears left to cry She’d shed them all And she was so tired, exhausted from worry, from the constant stress of the unknown
Quint held her firoing to be fine We’ll find Hampton, and Frederik will be in a jail cell within the week I have enough contacts that we can get him found and locked up quickly We’ll have our baby boy back, and I can finally get to know the son I’ve le moment since I remembered who I was in that field hospital in Khatlon”
Chapter Twenty Three