Chapter Sixteen
“There is a stairway there,” Geneviève was pointing at a spot another hundred yards along the escarpment. “Two thousand steps down the cliff face and we will be in Cambodia, far out of the reach of the Thai. Even a parking lot with room for Emily to make her landing.”
Peter looked out over the edge of the escarpment. “That’s like a two-hundred story building, right?”
“You have better idea on how to save your life?” Suddenly Geneviève displayed a new side to him. This was a woman out at her limits of confidence, terrified that a single mistake could kill them all.
“Anywhere you lead, I’ll follow. That’s a promise.”
She took a deep breath, huffed it out, and nodded once, blinking hard. Geneviève turned to survey the next stretch. “But you should have instead a guarantee
