CHAPTER 14
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AFTER PHILIPPE STORMED out of my house, neither Ian nor I said anything for a few moments. When the silence had stretched for too long and become unbearable, I turned towards Ian, looked straight into his eyes, and said softly, “Thank you, Ian. I thank you from all my heart. Hadn’t you come when you came, I don’t know what might have happened to me. He was much stronger than I was and I couldn’t... couldn’t fight him back.”
Ian looked at me pensively for a few moments, and then he rubbed his forehead wearily and said, “I heard him in the bar earlier... He was drinking with some friends of his at a table not far from mine. He was speaking quite loud and I overheard him boasting and making plans... At first I thought he was just showing off... You know how he likes to
