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Оглавление“Just how many laws have you broken?”
“I wasn’t counting. Let’s see. There’s removing a child from a refugee camp without permission. Then there is the small detail of smuggling her across more international borders than I can at this moment recall....”
“Is that it?”
“Apart from breaking and entering, of course. But you already know about that one. Will you press charges, Dora?”
“Don’t get smart with me, Gannon. I’m already an accessory after the fact in that one. I meant serious stuff. If I’m going to ask friends for favors, I need to know that you’re not...” A crook. Using Sophie as a shield. Using me. “Well, I don’t know a whole lot about you,” she finished, somewhat lamely.
“I just wanted to get my daughter to safety, Dora. Bring her home.”
“But if she’s your daughter, Gannon, why didn’t you just go through the proper channels?”
“Have you any idea how long it would have taken? I was desperate. It was that or leave her there while the wheels of bureaucracy ground ever so slowly.” Despite the pain and weariness his look was suddenly razor sharp. “You wouldn’t have left her in there, would you, Dora?”
