Some with boyfriends or husbands attached. The Greer’s were there, as were Sara and Coach Nelson. Everyone was congratulating Diane Phillips the new...acting principal of Kennedy High. Carl McClelland was standing off to the side trying not to look down the low cut blouse Maria had worn to cheer Jacob up. Erika and Melissa were sharing the only chair, occasionally feeding Jacob ice cubes. Bill Greer came over and gave Helen a hug. He told her how sincerely grateful he was for what her son had. Protect Rudy. They were his. All he had. And he was furious. He had his suspicions over who it was, and if he was right, a certain member of the Martin family had a lot of explaining to do. He hadn't minded it when David took his picture without him knowing about it, but to think of a picture of Rudy which should have never been taken in the first place, wrecked his nerves.The fact that Frank eventually had to stop, accepting defeat, wrecked his nerves, too. He'd come to a fork where two trails. We stayed for a couple of hours before heading off to meet other friends, with Jason promising that we’d pop back tomorrow for lunch.The rest of the day passed in a whirl, seeing various places and meeting various people, and finally, we headed to the hotel Jason had booked. As we booked in and settled into our room, my phone pinged with an incoming message. “Hi, baby, talk? Am just back home. Love N xx”I smiled as I saw that the message was from my wonderful husband. I was loving my time in. ..I was pleasantly dozing in front of the screen, half watching a senior politician having terribly inept sex with someone else's wife, when the chime that told me the Wisdom wanted me to know something rang through the room. Its sonorous, androgynous voice immediately following:'Just to let you know, Zara ... I think we're about to have a visitor. Prospect 14 has just run into a spot of bother. Thought you ought to know'This was Wisdom speak for "I'm not actually going to do anything about.