CHAPTER 5

          Christian’s little hand suddenly clutched at the front of Ava’s uniform, his eyes huge in his stricken face.

“You’ll be back again, right, mummy?”

          Ava squatted down to his level and looked deep into his troubled gaze.

“Of course, I will, sweet boy.”

          His expression was still white with worry.

“You’re not g-going to p-prison like before, are you?”

          She suppressed a frown as she hugged him close. She had always tried to be as honest with him as possible without distressing him with details too difficult for him to understand, but she had never gone into the sordid details of why she had to go to prison.

          But it