She wouldn’t count on it.
In the bedroom, she fastened the niqab around her head so only her eyes showed. After she dragged her suitcase to the front door, she returned to the baby’s room, where she changed his clothes. His eyes blinked open, and she kissed his cheek. “Shh, baby. Go back to sleep.”
He scrunched up his face as if he were about to cry. At least his cry wasn’t that loud yet. At two weeks old, his little lungs could only make so much noise. She lifted him and rocked him until he relaxed against her shoulder.
As she eased him into the sling, he barely stirred. She draped the scarf over him, placed the messenger bag on top of the suitcase, and slipped out.
She lugged her suitcase down the stairs, through the center courtyard, and out a side door, where the tiny cab she’d ordered the night before waited for her in the alley. The taxi driver hefted her suitcase into the trunk while she glanced left and right, straining to see in the dim light of dawn. Julien’s guards were nowhere in sight. The morning was quiet. Free of weapons and violence.
“Charles de Gaul, s’il vous plait.”
The drive to the airport seemed to take forever. Rae didn’t relax until her flight’s wheels lifted off the runway.
She kissed Jean-Louis’s tender head, wiped the tears that had dropped onto his thin spray of hair, and whispered, “We’re safe, for now.”
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Nearly nine hours later, Rachel pulled her suitcase to the curb at Logan International Airport. She dropped the abaya, scarf, and niqab, along with the remaining airline ticket, into the trash can, and climbed into a beat-up yellow cab. The taxi slid onto the highway and was quickly engulfed in the chaos of the traffic headed to downtown Boston.
Rachel Adams had disappeared.
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Glimmer in the Darkness, Part of the Dangerous Deceptions Boxset
Convenient Lies
Twisted Lies
Generous Lies
Innocent Lies
Beauty in Flight
Beauty in Hiding
Beauty in Battle
Legacy Rejected
Legacy Restored
Legacy Reclaimed
Legacy Redeemed
Chasing Amanda
Finding Amanda
A Package Deal
About the Author
Aside from her family and her Savior, Robin Patchen has two loves—writing and traveling. If she could combine them, she’d spend a lot of time sitting in front of her laptop at sidewalk cafes and ski lodges and beachside burger joints. She’d visit every place in the entire world—twice, if possible—and craft stories and tell people about her Savior. Alas, time is too short and money is too scarce for Robin to traipse all over the globe, even if her husband and kids wanted to go with her. So she stays in Oklahoma, shares the Good News when she can, and writes to illustrate the unending grace of God through the power and magic of story.
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