THE LAST DANCE
She tensed, her muscles coiling, ready to run, ready to scream, ready to do anything except stand still and wait for the bullet.
But he did not pull out a gun. He pulled out a photograph.
He held it out to her. She did not take it. She stared at it, at the glossy surface, at the image printed on it, and felt the blood drain from her face.
It was her. Not Zara Okafor, the dance instructor. Not the woman in black who taught widows to waltz. It was her, five years ago, at the Lagos Charity Ball. She was wearing a gold dress that clung to her body like liquid fire. Her hair was swept up in an elaborate twist. Her smile was wide and genuine and completely ignorant of the nightmare that was about