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If I kill the head of their army, then their entire empire will fall. Mak and I will take all this money Donnacha’s been paying me into that bank account, and we’ll run. We’ll fly. He can leave his smuggling job, and we’ll soar high together, up, up, up above the clouds to where it’s always sunny.
And if I don’t…
A cold sweat dots on my skin.
If I don’t, then Belsky will kill Mak and force me to be his wife.
My heart palpitates to an off-beat rhythm, stuttering my movements.
Breathe, Romy. Breathe.
I listen to the calm voice in the corner of my brain even though it’s nothing more than a whisper. Embracing the numbness that comes with self-preservation, I pick up the television remote and scan through TIVO until I find a suitable dinner recipe.
Steak and potato pie.
I pull out the ingredients as Bessie lists them off in her usual chirp. It’s like she’s never had a dark thought in her life—unlike me. My mind is a bottomless black abyss.
Putting a potato on the cutting board, I bring a knife down on its rubbery flesh, slicing it in half.
Just like clawing Danny English to death, attempting to plunge a shard of mirror into my husband’s neck was an act of desperation.
No. There’ll be no bloodshed. I’ll simply treat him like I do all of Belsky’s assignments.
I’ve already fucked him. Now there are just two stages of the assignment left:
Gain his trust.
Kill him quietly.
