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Alex lowered the binoculars and pointed. ‘Land.’
Jane kept her distance from him, at the far end of the bridge, and stood with her arms wrapped around her body. She looked across at him, then out towards the coast. She was biting her lip.
She’d been silent for most of the trip on board the Fair Lady, though she’d been curious initially about the menagerie lashed to the aft deck in cages, and wriggling about in safely tied hessian bags in the lounge cabin. He’d explained to her that on the way to taking her to South Africa he’d be finding a new home for the wildlife they’d captured from the Peng Cheng.
He’d deliberately refrained from asking her anything about the missing package, as it was clear to him she was still traumatised by her experience on the island. At one point in the vo
