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Liam pushed through the front door of the shop and stepped out onto the pavement.
The afternoon was warm and unhurried, the street doing what streets did at this hour, people moving past with somewhere to be, a woman pushing a stroller on the far side, two guys leaning against a wall sharing something between them, a food cart on the corner with steam rising from it and a small queue that had formed without anyone deciding to form it.
He had his jacket on and his hands in his pockets and he was already thinking about his next move when he heard the engine.
Not moving. Just sitting.
A black SUV was parked directly in front of the shop, taking up the space like it had always been there and had no plans to leave.
Large and expensive, the kind of vehicle that cost more than most people made in several years and knew it.
