“Tanya, you do understand that what we do is for the benefit of all people, not only to benefit certain groups or this group?"
After a long silence Dirk continued the discussion, they had previously, albeit a bit curtly. The tension was humming like an angry dragon between the two men ─ Dirk and Patrick had a brief debate the moment they were back at the house – heated voices raised a number of times in the closed study and she knew the whole thing wasn't going according to plan.
Soon after a door was shut with dramatic force as Dirk walked out of the hallway into the kitchen and proceeded out the back door with uncanny speed. She found him at the back of the house sitting in silence under the shade of an old oak tree with his eyes closed.
She too had much to think about as she took
