She didn't move for a moment, trying to get her bearings when she heard the bird again. Glancing at the open balcony door, she smiled to herself, reme...bering how Niko had taken her from behind over the railing just a few hours before.Her body, more than a little stiff, was sore in all the right places. Each tentative movement of her limbs was another reminder of how passionately she and her husband had made love through the night.As she uncurled her body and stretched, an urgency in the region. The room's hard concrete floor sloped toward alarge floor-drain located in the very center. A length of hose hung nearbyfor washing down it whatever needed washing down. "God. Oh, god," Donovan repeated as they made theirway in. AKA nodded toward the butcher's block. "That'swhere I'll take you apart." He nodded toward the freezer. "And that's whereI'll temporarily store whatever needs storing." "This can't be happening. This can't be happening." AKA walked Donovan to the center of the room. ‘Oh?’ He filled the kettle. ‘Yes. You live up in North Essex, Don’t you?’ ‘Abbess Roding actually. What is your interest?’ ‘I have just bought a parcel of land up there. It’s just north of Braintree and fourteen miles from Stansted. It is an estate called Chetford.’ He shook his head. ‘I can’t recall such an estate. Where exactly is it?’ ‘It’s slightly south of Tilbury-juxta-Clare.’ Chad’s face cleared. ‘I think I know something about that. If I am right it was a training ground for the Army.. Ashlann was waiting for me as soon as I stepped out of the lift and, after a polite greeting, led me straight to her office, which meant it was official as well as high level ... Either that or she wanted a personal favour, though she’d never asked for one in the past. Unlike other Cures, I did do personal favours for the staff in Medical Resource in the way of giving a quick fix to their relatives who were occasionally in dire straits owing to the multitude of weird diseases that, although.