Chapter 14
A Plan
They held hands and prowled the darkening gardens, moving from one to the other and retracing their earlier steps with the children. Sophia shuddered, seeing the spectre of Maisie’s anxious eyes staring from around every corner and hedge, even though the child lay at her foster home tucked up in bed. The children’s fate haunted her more than her own. Dane’s confession left him flushed and sweating but Sophia’s heart chilled with its awfulness. She didn’t ask and he volunteered nothing more of his painful secret.
“We’re going to Palmy this Saturday.” His tenor rang out in the silence of the American garden and Sophia’s brow knitted.
“How?”
“I’ve organised a ride and some help. I swapped shifts at the garden centre and faked a note from Edgar saying you’d gone to your
