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‘I said she was smart,’ Rafi said pouring out the foaming champagne into flutes as if Petra had just announced successfully completing a crossword puzzle.
‘Sheket,’ Benny said. ‘Shut up. Have you spoken to the girl’s brother? Did you meet him when you brought her to London? This is all much more complicated than you realise, you know. I’m telling you for your own good because there are a lot of other interests that you don’t know about.’
‘Don’t threaten me, don’t even obliquely threaten me,’ Petra said. ‘You had your chance to come clean when I saw you in Bath and I gave you another chance just now and you blew it. So whatever you say, including your crappy attempts to scare me have about as much currency as a politician’s promis
