Twenty minutes later Tamsyn walked in, annoyed at being summoned.

And because both of them believed, completely, that Sidonie was broken and powerless and had nowhere on earth to take what she knew, they stopped hiding any of it.

Tamsyn admitted, with a bored kind of cruelty, that she’d never been hurt at all that night — that the whole scene had been theirs, start to finish.

Radley bragged about the forged documents that had kept Sidonie frozen in fear for six years.

“Your old man was the best part,” Radley said, flicking dust off his jacket.

“Wired the money like clockwork.