The 8 foot gates consumed slightly more than 3 million gallons. I had upgraded the water supply with two 12 inch gates that each supplied 10,000 gallo...s a minute. I was working with a team hired from the superconductor plant. They still lived there, but took a gate elevator to work.With an 8 hour workday, I hoped they could do four 8 foot gates a day, or one 36 inch gate every 30 minutes. Everything was semi automated, with the workers controlling everything from the control room. Activation of. "I'm going to sleep with Jerry," Valerie whispered in my ear.My hand shook ever so slightly and a driblet of the precious liquid ran down my cuff. I felt the cold chill of the iced gin. I struggled to hold my hand steady."You're what Val?" I plan to sleep with your business partner Jerry." Honey, this is not a good time for jokes." I smiled at a favorite employee who walked forward to take my picture."As a matter of fact, this is a perfect time, he's here, you're here."A pinprick of pain. I didn’t do that this morning because my normal routine is to do it after I walk Jess to work. This morning I stayed here.”“That’s all I need at the moment.”I decided to tease her a bit.“Are you sure about that?” I said in as sexy a voice as I could manage. “There isn’t something else you need?”“In your dreams!” she said with a small laugh. “As I said, they’ll be in to draw blood shortly.”“Thanks, Angel! Anytime you want to visit heaven, you let me know!”She laughed, “You weren’t kidding about. No sign of anyone in the flat. We've taken a chance and spoken to some of the neighbours and they say they haven't seen Mr MacGovern for months. We've checked with the school too and he hasn't showed up for work this morning. No explanation given for that apparently."Drew pondered the words of the PC who was one of the pair dispatched to carry out the surveillance of Kenny MacGovern. What he had thought was going to be a straightforward job seemed to be turning into something altogether more.