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Source ISBN: 9780008380380
Ebook Edition © February 2020 ISBN: 9780008380427
Version: 2020-06-09
Contents
1 Cover
2 Title Page
3 Copyright
4 Contents
5 Chapter Ten: Contact
6 Chapter Eleven: Not Safe
7 Chapter Twelve: Mr Nowak
8 Chapter Thirteen: Review
9 Chapter Fourteen: Distraught
10 Chapter Fifteen: They Made Me
11 Chapter Sixteen: Questioned by the Police
12 Chapter Seventeen: Sickening
13 Chapter Eighteen: Family
14 Chapter Nineteen: Therapy
15 Chapter Twenty: Family
17 About the Publisher
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Chapter Ten
Whatever had happened between Roksana and Oskar to make them so cautious of each other? I wondered as I drove home from the Family Centre. It wasn’t normal. Having been separated for three weeks, neither of them had anything to say to each other and apparently felt nothing on being reunited. Or possibly they had felt plenty, but for whatever reason weren’t able to show their emotions, with neither willing to make the first move. Hopefully they were getting along better now.
I had just enough time to go home for half an hour before I had to leave
