As a condition of your survival, Nick and Maria were to join the Domino Programme, along with someone to act as your auxiliary in Paris. I volunteered.’ ‘He was bluffing. Burnish must already have been told to save me.’ ‘We could not risk losing you.’ He said it as if it were the simplest thing in the world. All three of them had been willing to trade their freedom and power for my life. ‘Thank you,’ I said. ‘For not giving up on me.’ ‘Never.’ I wished he would hold me. I wished I could bear it.
