”“You’re sure about that?”I nodded, “I am. The conversations yesterday and today made that clear to me. I don’t mean this in any way but l...ve, but you simply aren’t cut out to be the wife of a deacon, with all that entails, especially given your analysis.”“And you think Elizaveta can handle that?”“I think she has a very different personality from you or Tasha, and she reminds me of both Father Herman’s and Father Nicholas’ wives, as well as Deacon Grigori’s wife. But I’ll have to lay it out for. Work was progressing on repairs to the infrastructure but almost no work was being done on the purely military assets. Interviews with politicians were uninformative, that is, even more uninformative than usual. None of them had any opinion on anything. Vids of the naval bases and command centres were devoid of activity.Without taking a position, the Intel Committee floated the peaceful disintegration of the Harbourian hegemony which produced sceptical looks from the listeners with the reply of. It took her the longest time to get from the front door to the family room. She’s soused.”I thought about how close we came to getting caught. What if she had caught us kissing or if she had been sober enough to have arrived and come upstairs to investigate my moaning? Beginning right then we never left either the back or front doors unlocked. No matter what we were doing, right or wrong, no one was going to walk in on us. Grammy did not last until mommy and daddy got home. We did not. If it's not money, it's not power or influence then it could be personal," he thought to himself.MacIntosh didn't know it, but he had just come to the same conclusion as Fraser Gilchrist. What he didn't know was that a trawl through crimes known to have involved Stevie Miller, in the hope of finding somebody out for revenge, wouldn't lead him to the killer. No one had been arrested for the murder of Nora MacSween - so DI MacIntosh wouldn't link that crime to Miller and there was no trail to.