“Yes, all right, dear”, he replied and then quietly to Ross, “As if…”
“Right”, said Ayr, “up onto the roof. I’ve got keys to the cyber cafe, and we can raid the fridge there… fewer mosquitoes as well”.
∞
The following day, there appeared a government article in all the daily papers saying that the people who had been presumed to have been killed in the bomb blast, were now officially deemed to be dead and they urged all life assurance companies involved to pay out promptly so as to minimize the suffering of the bereaved. This official pronouncement effectively scuppered any moves that Dok Phi Sua might have been planning to prevent Soom from carrying on with her life. She was officially a widow and all their property was now hers, as Mike had willed it to be.
Soom was now free to conce
