“Still no word?” Albert asked as he walked into Makie’s office.
Makie’s face and voice revealed how worried she was when she answered, “He hasn’t been seen since the funeral.”
“He can’t just have vanished off the face of the earth, damn it.”
“So you’d think, but to all intents and purposes he seems to have done just that.”
She thought back to the day of the funeral two weeks previously. It was something she’d had to arrange, as there had been no word from Vance after the moment that she’d told him about his father’s death. And she knew that was because she’d admitted to him that she had refrained from telling him that his father was dying in order to keep Vance from aborting the mission to come back to be by his bedside.
The day of the funeral had been bright and sunny. The church was
