Rachel settled back on the sun-lounger, her skimpy bikini loosely tied and her raven hair splayed out on the pillow behind her head. The white-washed walls of the villa in front of her were dazzling to her eyes despite her sun glasses, and the mountains beyond shimmered a smoky blue-grey. She sipped her ouzo and lemonade through a straw, basking in the intense dry heat, so much more bearable than the muggy heat of Moscow, and watched as Dmitri performed his callisthenics by the pool side, dived into the refreshingly cold water, and swam up and down in a blue as deep as the sky.
He had a fabulous body, which no doubt she would enjoy again later. Surprisingly, she suddenly thought of Jak. That useless piece of shit would get all that he deserved; Tanya was poison!
She still felt guilty about Peter and was sorry for Tanya, though she shouldn’t have meddled in things she knew nothing about.
As the Iron Curtain tightened again, and bodies piled up in Ukraine, Rachel was lucky to have escaped, when the GRU raided her flat. But after all, she did miss her life in Moscow, and she was sorry that things had gone awry with Jak. He did play a good game of chess.
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So Rachel Jones has escaped to Greece and is now free from the duplicity of governments and lovers, or so she thinks. I hope all my followers have enjoyed the story and I thank them for all their likes and encouragement. So if you would like to recap and read the story in one go, which is perhaps more satisfying, I have published “The Raven” and it is available in a Kindle version on Amazon.
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The Raven 