CHAPTER 3Avery Francis glanced across the breakfast table at her mother who looked pale as she read the small article on an inside page of The New Zealand Herald.
"It's okay, Mum," she said. "He will never find us here in Auckland and even if he did, it wouldn't be in his interest to seek us out and risk being recalled to prison." She was only half convinced at her statement and, in fact felt as scared as Natalie Francis.
"They gave him nine years for violent assault against me and committing s****l conduct with dependent family members against you and now he is out after only five years." Natalie slapped the newspaper down. "Where is the justice in that?"
"We knew he would come out of jail, Mum. It's just a little sooner than we anticipated."
Avery's mind slipped back a dozen years to
