Chapter Twenty Seven

He saw her face cloud with pain.

‘You do not believe me?’

She looked at the floor and he lifted her chin,

‘I believe every word you have told me’

He saw the tears shining in her eyes and he smiled knowing what he had to do next would delight her, he looked up as a knock came on his door,

‘I believe you because we know who you are’

He saw her frown in surprise and then she gasped with delight as Mac opened the door,

‘Mac!’

She screamed his name and jumped into his arms hugging him tightly and crying again, he hugged her to his chest stroking her head and saying

‘I am so sorry, so very sorry’

Over and over again until eventually she calmed down and he sat with her on his lap as she would not let him go. Slowly the whole story came out, how the Russians had taken his Daughter and Grandson forcing him to betray her, how they had been poisoned just like her parents, as the Russians exacted their revenge and they had both died. He explained how the FO had recruited him to find her and had p