Chapter 19
‘I’m going up first,’ Seb whispered in her ear. ‘I’ll tie the rope around the chimney and lower it down to you. Do you think you can scale the wall or would you rather I pulled you up?’
They were standing at the back of the house where Henri was being kept, close to the wall where they couldn’t be seen from any of the windows. It was just barely dark, but no one had wanted to wait a second longer than necessary. Emilia stared up at the uneven brickwork of the wall Seb was about to climb without a rope. She swallowed. He’d obviously done it last night, so he must know what he was doing, but from her perspective she couldn’t see any foot or hand holds, other than the bars covering the windows… and there was a lot of space in between the windows.
‘I can scale it,’ she whis
