‘Oh, Paula, they were amazing,’ he breathed. ‘The colours… they started on the horizon, and then they were everywhere. They filled the whole sky.’

She sat back down in the chair. ‘Who were you out there with?’

He was facing away from her, still gazing outside as though the lights were going to appear again at any minute. His back stiffened. ‘The lads,’ he said. ‘Dermot and Angus and a few of the others were there.’

He threw her a look, and she saw she had ruined his high. She hadn’t even mentioned Anna’s name, but he knew that was what she was really asking him.

He went back across the suite and stooped to pick up his coat from the floor. Paula’s breathing quickened. He had just got back, he couldn’t leave her again. Not alone, not in this suite, not with her next door.

‘Where are you going?’ she asked, and then, in case he thought she was nagging, ‘Can I come with you?’

He shrugged, and she took this as a yes as she pulled on her boots and grabbed her jacket from the peg. He was still in a mood, she saw, and he had been intending on going wherever he was headed alone. To see her?

She shivered, in spite of the warmth of the cabin, and followed him to the door.

Soon they would be in Iceland.

Soon she would have some sort of idea on how to go about reporting her suspicions about Anna to someone in authority.

And the sooner Anna was taken away, the sooner she would have Tommy back where he belonged. Until then, she would stick by his side.

Chapter 21

They walked around the upper deck twice, Tommy forging ahead, Paula a good two steps behind. In her haste to follow her husband, she had forgotten her gloves, and she shoved her hands deep in her pockets.

‘No sign of the storm yet,’ she called to him once the silence had gone on for too long.

Tommy stopped at the bow of the ship and leaned on the railing. She caught up with him and watched as he scanned the skies, his eyes glittering dark in the moonlight.

‘It’s coming,’ he said.

She laughed and moved up to stand beside him. ‘Can you smell it?’ she asked.

He looked up and breathed in deeply. With an exaggerated glance at her, he nodded. ‘I think I can.’ Then he laughed too, and it was like a light being flipped. His mood had turned. She leaned into him and hooked her arm through his.

‘What shall we do when we dock?’ she asked as they began to walk again.

He looked down at her. ‘What do you want to do?’

‘I don’t know, what are the options?’

She half listened as he reeled off the various excursions, and what Dermot and Angus had suggested, with them having been here before.