“I am sorry, I am sorry,” Ava had heard herself repeat over and over again as she had seen Bernard’s eyes close almost instantly and he had fallen into a deep sleep.

She would have loved to curl up somewhere and cry her eyes out for her involvement in a crime, but Ruby shouted at her to get hold of herself as she told two guys who had been waiting at the bar that their attention was needed now.

“Mama, Naim be dis? Na fine boy, sha. Mama, is this him? He is a fine boy, sha,” one of the guys had said as he and his partner had picked...