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“Damn! Damn! Damn!” With each curse, Kieran slammed his fist down on the steering wheel. He could not believe that so much had gone wrong so quickly; first there was the trap the police had set and almost caught him with, then he had failed to get Georgina’s phone from his sister. It should not have been possible for him to fail to do that when his sister was so much smaller and weaker than him. And finally, he had failed even to stop Tara reaching help.
It took more than a minute for him to calm down enough to leave the Land Rover, and when he did he hurried across the yard to the house. He couldn’t stay at the farm, not now Tara had escaped him – he simply could not imagine that his sister would keep quiet about what had happened that morning – which meant he had to leave the villag
