“Yes, well, Ice did… but I bet you’re right. She’ll be setting one up and thinking of excuses for what she said. Come on, why don’t we go and join your husband for lunch, it’s twelve already? I’ll just go and give Ross a shout – I’ve no idea what he’s doing in there.”
Ice’s predicament had a profound effect on Lek, one that it hadn’t seemed to have had on Ayr. Ayr could speak of it lightly, but Lek found it shocking that anyone would try to cheat God or even Buddha, even if they didn’t believe and she knew there were a few about, although she didn’t know whether Ice was one of them. It just seemed ‘too stupid and too dangerous’, as Ayr had said, to temp Fate that much – the consequences of betting wrong were too horrific for her to want to even contemplate.
∞
A few days later, when they
