Chapter 53

• Or perhaps she had already made it and didn’t even realise it. With Alessandro standing there in the darkness, looking like judge and jury all rolled into one, she had the terrible feeling that she had been tried and found guilty and she didn’t know quite what she had done.
• ‘No one would have taken you. My staff have been told not to take you anywhere. Not unless I give them specific instructions.’
• Not just tried and found guilty, but tried, condemned—and imprisoned. The shiver at Sofia’s spine turned into a full blown shudder and she grabbed at the balcony as her legs felt suddenly unsteady beneath her.