Liberation (I Am Margaret Book 3) (34 page)
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Authors: Corinna Turner
“Catch him!” I cried, as he fell like a rag doll towards the marble floor.
One of the Swiss guards lunged – a look of surprise crossed his face as he stood there supporting the man’s weight; the guy must be light as a feather.
I slipped past Bane and hurried forward, afire with curiosity. Who
on earth
?
The Swiss guard lowered his burden to the ground, pillowing the man’s head on a kneeler cushion. I crouched beside him and Al appeared at my shoulder looking even more hyper
-
alert than normal. I got guarded a lot nowadays.
“Sir?” I touched the man’s shoulder gingerly. Was he conscious? “Can you hear me?
I’m
Margaret Verrall...”
His eyes flew open. Brilliant green eyes.
Like mine.
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UK = US Vocabulary.
6
. Lorries = Trucks (Singular ‘Lorry’)
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9
. Cotton wool = Cotton balls
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Copyright © 2015 Corinna Turner
First published in Great Britain in 2015
by Unseen Books
An Imprint of Zephyr Publishing*
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Scripture quotations pp. 293-295
(Song of Songs 2:8-10, 14-16; 8:6-7
,
Corinthians 13:1, 3-8
and
Matthew 5:14-16)
from
The Jerusalem Bible
© 1966 by Darton Longman & Todd Ltd and Doubleday and Company Ltd. Used by permission.
Except p. 294
(Psalm 111 (112) v.8b)
from
The Psalms: A New Translation
© 1963 The Grail (England) published by HarperCollins.
Used by permission.
The Map of Malta and Gozo incorporates parts of the map:
Malta location map
By Maximilian Dörrbecker (Chumwa) (own work, using
Fgura-map.svg
by William Shewring). Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
(
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
)
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN: 978-1-903858-08-0 (paperback)
Also available as an eBook
This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, incidents and dialogues in this publication are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual locales, events or people, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
* Zephyr Publishing, UK – Corinna Turner, T/A
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