Natalie didn't know how long she stood there and watched Igor and his cleanup crew efficiently wrap Ethan in the now bloody rug and bag him up in black refuse bags.It all felt so surreal. But even in her dreamlike state, she knew she was next. There was no way Andrei would let her leave alive now. Not when she'd just witnessed a murder.Did this make her an accessory to murder?It wasn't hard to figure out where the cops would stop first once Ethan's body turned up somewhere. After all, she'd delivered his finger to his residence. Even with her pathetic disguise, she had no doubt in her mind Mrs Wilson and the housekeeper would easily pick her out in a police lineup. She didn't have that familiar grocery store face look. She stood out in a crowd.While she was still processing the craziness in front of her, the door burst open, and in came two middle-aged men, dressed in casual clothes, with comms pieces looped around their ears and their weapons already drawn.She wanted to shout wi

Emily jumped out of the car, her face flush with outrage and disapproval."So this is Sparrow Beach?" she demanded as she grabbed her backpack and a few grocery bags from the back seat and locked the car."How did you even find out about that?" Natalie asked as they took the stairs to her floor."Norah made all of us pray for Jamie at the daily catch up, never mind that some of us are atheists." Emily rolled her eyes and carried on. "But when I checked you on the 'Find My' app and saw you all over the map, I knew something was up.""So you cut work just to catch me in a lie?""Yep," Emily nodded. "I had to see for myself what sort of mischief or trouble you'd gotten yourself in."Natalie unlocked her door and led her inside, irritated at the intrusion. She really should disable that app. But it was one of the rules in their companions' chat to always have it on because it was their way of looking out for each other, however passive."So, what the hell were you doing in Glen Eagles and

On Thursday, the day after his last conversation with Natalie, Levi was still fuming. The idea that she thought she could end things with him, over a phone call at that, was laughable in itself. But her fearlessness was mind-blowing, to say the least. He couldn't understand how anyone so tiny could get herself into so much shit in just a matter of days, especially when he'd given her strict instructions to stay out of trouble while he was away."And what the hell does she do?" Levi turned to Mark for the hundredth time since his check-in with Zachary and Carlos over an hour ago."Exactly what you told her not to do?" his partner replied for the hundredth time as he moved through his adjoining room, picking up his toiletries and stuffing them inside his luggage bag. He paused and frowned at him through the open doorway. "Shouldn't you be packing?""I was done with that yesterday morning when I was ready to fly back home, remember? I only have a few items to put away," Levi reminded him

"Do it," Levi said, blood splattering out of his mouth. "Why don't you shoot me like your brother shot Liam, then both of you can just end up in prison where you belong?""Nah," Andrei shook his head, and a collective sigh of relief swept through the room when he returned his gun to its holster, held out his hand to Levi and helped him up."That would be too easy," he said as they took their seats again. "I like watching you run around like a headless chicken trying to find Colleen, and I like knowing that you think I had something to do with her disappearance. But do you know what I enjoy the most?""What?" Levi glared at him as he wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his thumb."Smelling your fear. You reek of it. And I smelt it on you the moment you walked through those doors. Now, if you don't quit poking your nose where it doesn't belong, your little lady will end up like Ethan. Ask her who he is and what I've done to him. She saw it all. She watched me kill him.""Y

The two-hour ride to the Blue Mountains flew by too quickly.One minute Natalie was enthralled by the views of the snowcapped peaks, and the next, they were landing in a backyard so enormous it could hold her old high school.She wished she hadn't blinked during the ride just so she could have taken in every little detail to share with Jamie.Mr Ackerman helped her off the aircraft and held her head down as a safety precaution to avoid the still spinning rotor blades as he whisked her away.Two fancy-ass golf carts pulled up in seconds, and Natalie laughed in disbelief. The billionaire shows she'd watched last night with Emily, in preparation for today, weren't far fetched at all. The uber-wealthy never walked anywhere. Why should they when they had golf carts to drive them around?"Ma'am?" Mrs Ackerman turned and frowned at her when she saw her still standing there, dazed by the splendour all around her, her eyes as huge as flying saucers.Natalie knew she was acting like a real hill