I wouldn't be surprised if he suddenly started breathing again." He jabbed a hypodermic into the corpse's arm and withdrew a blood sample. "Maybe the ...ab boys can make something of it."Willets stared around the cavern. The glowing crystalline rock formations provided a kind of natural light. Stronger shafts shone down from larger structures in the ceiling like spotlights. Willets scanned the stalagmites and rock formations with a practised eye, making a mental note of the possible hiding places. ”“OK. I’ll talk to him.”Diana“Mick, I understand what you’re feeling. We talked about it a couple of times already. I love you and I know that you love me. I don’t think you love me, or believe you love me. I KNOW you love me. I KNOW that whatever we do with the other two people that we love so much will be sharing something so special with them. You’re my most important thing in the world. I’m not going to lose you. Deb is not going to take me away from you and neither is Paul.”“Di, I feel. I sat watching the post for a week after the day – I should have known that you had forgotten – you never had any thought for them when they were alive, so why should you care when they were dead?" She sniffed. "You might have given a thought for me; at least your mum gave a card, and fussed over me that day, but you couldn't be bothered – and you didn't even remember."It was true. I had forgotten the anniversary of the accident, but I was working flat out in the training program. Her parents. She must have left to crawl into bed with Dad before he woke up. She was sitting at the kitchen table with her morning coffee when I came downstairs. I fetched a cup for myself.“Where’s Dad?” I asked.“He’s gone for the day with Bob and Rick.” There was a long pause during which Mom started to speak but stopped several times. “Mark, I guess you know things are different between us now and always will be but it ... I mean, the sex part, doesn’t have to continue.”I was taken aback. Was she.