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“He is h,” Barnaby replied

Rose nodded and fell silent when her stomach flipped with nerves

“I will coht, Rose,” he ently for want of some other way to eradicate the aardness He alument would ease this stilted discomfort

“I a vaguely toward the bed “My head is aching”

“I will see you later” He was gone before Rose could even open her mouth

She stared at the closed door for several moments and slowly lay down on the cot The pilloas surprisingly fluffy and the blankets wonderfully soft Within seconds she was sound asleep

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Barnaby joined his colleagues around the main table below deck He i over everyone and lifted his brows

“Go on then,” he said quietly, pro hiood

“Brace yourself,” Noah warned him

Ben sighed “We think Sayers knows more about us than we anticipated”

Reg leaned back in his seat “If I didn’t know better, I would think that he knows about the safe houses”

“What makes you say that?”

“The safe house in London has been coood job about tidying up behind theh a few bills and the like but there is nothing incri there as you know It is just odd that the safe house has been the only house targeted on that particular residential street The trespasser’s entry into the house was through the studylike every other house Sayers has burgled”

Barnaby sighed The thought of it ical so he could think about what they were trying to tell him