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“Thank you, Mama,” she said softly
A, slow strokes, met her eyes in the mirror “What for, my dear?”
“Just thank you”
Aphrodite lay in Jemmy’s arers light and pleasing, and smiled into her eyes “Do you remember e met after all those years apart?” he asked
She laughed softly “Of course I reain”
“I wish so sooner It feels as if I wasted years…”
“No, rets They are useless We found each other, that is all that ether now”
He kissed the end of her nose
“There’s still one person needs sending to hell”
“Yes” She sighed “But I believe that now Mrs Slater and her spies are in jail, he will think twice before he hurts anyone ever again”
“What if he’s driven to it?”
“How so? I have not spoken out, and Francesca cannot He is safe Perhaps he will be content with that”
“I thought you wanted him named?” Jemmy said
“Maybe it is better to let sleeping monsters sleep on undisturbed”
“Do you really believe that?” he de up