CHAPTER 8Karla found the weeks had flown by with a much-earned holiday come and gone and the second term into its third week. It was now early May and well into New Zealand's autumn season. She had already noticed a difference from the Deep South where she had been the year before. Compared with the crisp frosts already starting down there, Auckland continued with moderate morning temperatures but with numerous wet days and a climate perhaps similar to San Francisco in California.
Apart from a mild bout of morning sickness that had now subsided, her pregnancy had gone well and three year old Alexis had, if anything become even more chatty and was thriving at her pre-school. Ryan's firm Spider's Revenge was thriving with several hours a week spent working with the police. He hadn't said a
