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“Are you going to see her?” Tia asked Dan.

“Yes, in a day or two. I can give her a message if you like?”

“What am I supposed to say to her?” Tia rolled over and faced the wall. “I can’t believe she left.”

Dan’s phone trilled, and she looked at the screen. “I have to take this. I’ll be downstairs if you need me.”

Luke slid to the floor and leaned back against the bed. In less than a week, his life had fallen apart. His sister wasn’t the only one broken inside. Hurt battled with confusion, a rivalry that left him drained. As well as being cut up about Ash, his view of the world had changed.

He’d once been convinced that violence never fixed anything, that right and wrong were black and white. But when Tia had been rescued, Luke suspected the methods used slipped into shades of grey. Once he’d have had a problem with that but now? His only regret was that Ash had inflicted the damage on Howard and not him.

He thought of his own online exploits. He’d never minded skirting the boundaries of legality with hacking by telling himself the only people he hurt were up to no good. Was what Ash did to Simon any different? He couldn’t deny the satisfaction he’d felt when he saw Simon holding his sensitive bits.

Luke wanted to throw the man under a train for what he’d done to his family. What would have happened if Simon hadn’t come on the scene? Would Ash have stayed? He’d never know.

“I miss her,” Tia sobbed from behind him.

He reached up and squeezed her hand. “I miss her too.”

The question was what, if anything, could he do about it?

Chapter 39

AS THE LIGHTS of London faded beneath me, the flutters didn’t leave, no matter how much I willed them away. I’d tried to kid myself the feeling was due to my lack of flying practice, but now we were airborne I had to admit it had another cause.

“You want your salad?” Bradley asked.

I shook my head. My appetite had deserted me, left behind somewhere in the vicinity of Lower Foxford.

Had I made the right decision to leave? When I thought of Luke and Tia I almost turned the plane around, but head overruled heart, and I continued on my course. They were better off without me. What did I have to offer apart from hassle and heartache?

Not a lot on current form.

I let out a thin breath. No, I needed to go home. The tatters of my life awaited me, scattered in the wind. I could spend a lifetime gathering the pieces together, but the biggest one would always be missing.

What would my future hold without my husband?

I gripped the control yoke as another mile zipped past. It wouldn’t be long before I found out.

What next?

IF YOU’D LIKE to find out what became of Simon Howard, you can receive FREE Pitch Black bonus chapters by following this link:

http://www.elise-noble.com/pitch-black-bonus

The Blackwood Security series continues with Into the Black…

Diamond may be used to saving the world, but can she save her own relationship?

 
With her husband’s killer still on the loose and her life in England a disaster, Diamond returns to the only thing she knows: work. As the star of special ops takes on enemies from the States to Syria, she finds the toughest battle is the one going on in her own head.

While she faces her demons, the man she left behind is involved in his own struggle when a beautiful stranger crosses his path. Will Luke give in to the ultimate temptation?

You can buy Into the Black via this link:
 

http://www.elise-noble.com/into-the-black/

 

Or, if you'd like a free copy, read on…

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End of book shit

THANK YOU TO my family, for putting up with me for all these years. That’s including me constantly tapping away on my iPad and living on another planet for most of the time.

Thank you to Abigail, for taking what was inside my head and turning it into cover art.

Thank you to Amanda, for helping to fix my plot gremlins, and I'm sorry about all my wonky commas and m-dashes.

Thank you to Team Blackwood for your endless support—in particular Glodiemyr, Chandni, Hence, Renata, Stanzin, Stephanie, Erazm, YusRa, Sayi Didit, Ramona, Mandy, Jeff, Helen and Terri.

Finally, a huge thank you to you, the reader, for taking a chance on me and buying this book. I hope you’ve enjoyed it!

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