“Do you think we will?” Sameh said. “Find the kid?”
Ellie shrugged. “Probably. It shouldn’t be too hard.”
Sameh nodded.
“Not that it really matters though,” Ellie said. “We do. We don’t. Whichever it is. I got Naomi back, which was the point.”
Sameh leaned forward and kissed Ellie, and that seemed to be that.
Ellie would try. She would do her best for the Shanghai heir, as she’d promised. She’d do her best, and probably succeed, but it wasn’t as important now if she failed. She’d got Naomi back, and she had Sameh too, and that was all that really mattered. All the rest, the guilt and discomfort with killing and everything else, those would fade in time. She was what she was, and the world was the world, and she hadn’t made it into what it became.
She had Sameh, and that was enough.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 13
Chapter 14