Chapter 79

• She took a step back and shook her head in the fashion of a disappointed teacher. "I assume you decided a year of marriage was long enough for the law to be on your side if I refused to play ball over custody arrangements? How clever you are, my husband. You think of everything. I congratulate you on your deviousness. If only I was a poor woman, you could have gone straight for the jugular and used your wealth to get full custody without a fight. But I’m not going to fight you…" Her nostrils flared." Not unless you force me."
• Eyes like lasers, she hissed," I will never stop you seeing our son but you will have to kill me before I let you take him from me. Now please excuse me, I hear a car—that will be my driver." She turned her back to him and leaned down to pick up the car seat.
• "Are you not going to give me the courtesy of hearing me out?" Nicholas asked in as modulated a tone as he could manage when he could barely hear his own voice over the roar of the heartbeats drumming in his ears. But the car coming to drive her away…he could hear that. Hear it closing in on them.