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And exactly what she was going to do about it

She was packed and ready to go by eight in theShe had slept eventually, a heavy, dreaood As she painted on her face her hand did not tremble When she was done she eyed herself objectively Her full face of , but that didn’tThey would not be suitable for her purpose

Before she set off downstairs she checked her wallet one last tiazed at the dark, incisive handwriting, the strong scrawl of his signature For just a moment she felt the eht lash out, but she leashed it back in

Not yet

Soon

She stood up, lifted her backpack, and headed out of the roo the corridor the shut door of the master bedroom looked back at her blankly As blank as her own expression Downstairs she took her leave of the staff, not looking any of them in the eye She didn’t like to behave like that, but for her own sanity she knew she had to Then she walked out to the waiting car The warmth after the perpetual air-conditioned cool of the interiorelse did She looked back at the house

A love-nest That was the coy expression that used to be in vogue Well, nothing to do with love had happened in there this week

She shivered again, and got into the car But as it started to move off she leant forward

‘I’ into Athens,’ she said to the driver

He nodded, incurious, and she leant back

It was strange, very strange, to see Athens again, to sit in one endless traffic jalimpses of the familiar outline of the Acropolis crowned by the Parthenon Even though she did not want to, she felt herself react Felt emotion start to run in her veins She stopped it because she could not allow herself to do otherwise

And because it was the wrong emotion

There was only one eht and proper for the occasion

Her first port of call was the bank She’d opened her own account before they’dto have funds placed there from her own British bank account in London It was irrelevant that her uncle would happily have bankrolled her, and that as Theakis Theo had opened a separate account for her at his bank She trusted only her own bank, her own name

It did not take long to pay in the cheque Theo had left for her But paying it in did not achieve the closure she needed She had known it would not Not now So much more was needed