Part 29 (1/2)

The signeur's fingers twitched at the air He swung towards Vass 'We need to intercept You have to arrange flights imone first We don't even have a contact over there'

'Don't argue with me,' Karoly snapped 'Re 'Yes, signeur Can I ask this, then? Do we have a contact?'

'We did A long tio'

'Who?'

'His na'

'Sounds faneur before me'

'And you know his whereabouts?'

'I have a suspicion'

'Can we trust hiht 'You don't need to worry about that'

CHAPTER 19

Snowdonia Now Hannah slah the kitchen into the hallway, flicking on lights as she went Leah was screa her na the hall, she grabbed the banister and swung herself around

Nate was standing at the top of the stairs In one hand he clutched a hter

When Leah spotted Hannah her screams turned to sobs 'Mummy!' She tried to extricate herself fro down the stairs with distrust in his eyes

'The orain'

He nodded 'My first car?'

'Volkswagen Scirocco White, with a leaky passenger door'

Nate released his grip on Leah The girl thundered down the stairs and leaped at her o of the shotgun, worried that she had not yet reloaded it

'It's OK, scairl's hair

'He came, didn't he? The Bad Man cahtened him away You're safe I'm here Your dad's here'

'What happened?' Nate asked

'He broke in through the back door Pretending to be Seb'

'Your head-'

'Just a cut'

'It looks bad'

'I'm OK Really'

He nodded 'You didn't wake me'

'I'm stupid, that's why I couldn't sleep so I came downstairs, surprised hi'

'You didn't We're all still here You ht even have-' He cursed, put a hand to his abdoaze to the botto across the fabric 'Oh Nate, you're bleeding'

He frowned down at his clothing 'I juun shots Must have torn the stitches'

Blood was beginning to drip from the hem of his shi+rt

For the first time, Hannah felt truly helpless

Jakab was so to do?' she asked, hating the desperation in her voice

Nate winced 'One thing at a time, as always Coed to get hi roohts Hannah helped her husband inside She felt light-headed Not enough sleep Too any dining table, two aruided Nate towards one and eased hile spent round, she pulled two cartridges from her back pocket and slotted theether, closed the dining-roohter She put one hand to the girl's face Stroked her cheek 'Leah, remember all those times e talked about this ?'

The girl nodded Her pupils were huge