She hesitated, then tilted her head slightly to one side. She was a friend. Just a friend."
As she spoke. she smiled. And that broad red smile, standing out against the bas-reliefs of the sanctuary, confirmed the truth for him. Her true destiny must also be at stake at that moment. Just as much as his own.
They were both finding their precise positions in an ancient fresco.
He focused on her startling lips. He thought of the wild poppies, the stalks of which his mother used to burn so as to preserve their scarlet color longer.
When the barrel of the.45 erupted, he realized that he was happy to die in the shadow of such a smile.
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE GRANGÉ
Was born in Paris 1961. Now an independent international reporter, he worked with magazines all over the world, as well as with various press agencies, before setting up his own news agency. Blood-Red Rivers, his second novel, became a huge bestseller in France and has since made into a film, The Crimson Rivers, directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and starring Jean Reno and Vincent Calles.
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