Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Seventeen


The door opens and from the shadowed entrance a voice greets, “Paul, hi… What the Hell happened to your face?”

“Julia… Hi, err… nothing… John in?”

“Upstairs.”

Paul races up the stairs without a second glance at the woman in the doorway. A tactical withdrawal. Julia watches him hurrying up to the flat. Her full, red lips, framed within the darkness of her hair, betray a slight smile.



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