Chapter 16
Her Georgia accent turned out to be pointless at the gate, because none of the guards spoke English. Thankfully, as a former French colony, that was the language of business and Michelle offered a fluent charm with that impossible ease she seemed to bring everywhere with her. Hannah’s own high-school French couldn’t begin to keep up, picking out little more than the gist of the conversation. She’d operated almost entirely in South and Central America, which gave her strong Spanish and Portuguese, but she’d had little reason to go into French Guiana, the only Francophone country in South America.
But she was able to feed small bits of information to Michelle and hear her slip them in as naturally as everything else.
“We’re big supporters of the Blue Devils soccer team.”
Miche
