”“Understood.” How did I end up here? “Out, here.” Then to Yelka, “The Mannlicher, Yelka, with the night-sight.”“Yes, Papa.” I knew ...ally had exercised the girls, more Yelka than Lena, with the long guns, and Yelka was at least familiar with the Mannlicher. She fetched the bipod, and fitted the night-sight to the rifle before handing it to me. She then fetched two five-round rotary magazines. I was nervous; I was quite familiar with the old Lee-Enfield my great-uncle had used in the second. Ada hardly noticed when Martha and Thaddeus left her and the young, handsome driver Peter Fair. But it wasn’t long before she could hear the rustling and giggling under one of the Golden Eagles. And then the moaning and the panting and the unmistakable sounds of fornication. Both she and Pete were blushing and their discussion was becoming more strained. But Ada felt chills going up her arm when Pete touched her there and then began to stroke her arm. He must have felt the chills too. He was. They had been to the Christmas work’s party and Susan’s husband had kindly offered to drop my mom off after having to collect his wife.Susan managed to prise herself away from my mom’s hug as I took her inside the house, my mom was totally drunk and had to be helped up the stairs to bed. There was only the two of us living here now after dad walked out some years ago and my two older sisters were married this year or I would have asked them to put mom away to bed.Mom is in her forties with a. Yes he was trying to do it through murder and violence, but you know what your friend did to stop him since he wanted Athol gone?"It wasn't enough that the first time they fought Athol lost badly and was confined to his bed for weeks. No, later Athol was found dead. He was naked in his room lying next to one of the women who was helping Wolfgang build that new kingdom he stole from its king."By all reports she was a very attractive young woman, with her whole life ahead of her, and for some.