Jamahl stared back at Chris but without making any response. Shona Grig eventually helped him out with, “Nah! I reckon she’s just gone to the bath...oom to take a dump. You wait ... she’ll be coming back any minute now just the way she left and she’ll be laughing at us all for being so easily sucked in.”Thirty minutes went by and still there was no sign of Riona Parkes returning to the group ‘the way she left’. Everyone at the table finished whatever it was that they had been eating but hardly. I refused him until he showed me the photo of Linda’s lover, Goyse.”“You chose me, Jatz? I thought it was Ken who made that decision.”“No, Ken wanted me to sleep with his boss. He tried for over a year to talk me into it but I refused. I liked him but he had a wife and a family. Jatz respects family. When Ken told me about you and Linda, it intrigued me to think that Linda had this young, very fit lover without a family. I told him that I choose you but he had to agree to my terms, not on. I wondered if there was something more I could have done to save our marriage. You have to understand that there’s nothing you could have done. She was committed enough to Brad to have him come to your hospital room, for crying out loud. She’s so far gone that you’d have to buy her a plane ticket to get her back into the marriage. I’m sorry to be so blunt about it, Stud, but I wished there’d been someone around to tell me this when I was wracking my brain in search of one more thing I could. “First drawer to the right of the cooker.” His heart began to pound now. Moments later she returned and began to delve into her handbag. He was intrigued when she took out a small brown paper bag. His nostrils began to pick up the smell of something spicy. Suddenly she delved inside with her hand and pulled out a large root of ginger. “Ginger, Miss?” he asked her. “Who gave you permission to speak?” she snapped. “Yes, it is ginger.” He had used it in cooking before but he always preferred.