Good Bait (DCI Karen Shields #1)(95)

Her hand was shaking now and Karen reached out and covered it with her own, feeling between them the small hardness of the ring.

‘I just need to ask you, Sasha – there’s no doubt in your mind what he meant by that, is there?’

‘No.’ Sobbing. ‘No.’

‘And you’d be willing to make a statement, repeat what you just told me?’

‘Yes.’ The word barely heard.

Karen moved closer and held her tight, for those short moments a bulwark against her tears.