Eye of the Raven
“He lowered himself gingerly into the warm suds and stayed there for more than half an hour, not realising how uptight he’d been about the possibility of prosecution until the threat had been removed. Now, relaxing in the warmth, listening to Miles Davis playing Kind of Blue, life suddenly seemed a whole lot better. He was still in some physical pain but when it came down to a choice between that and mental anguish, it was no contest. Even the protests of his ribs when he periodically leaned for...ward to top up the hot water was nothing compared to the prospect of Jenny hearing bad things about her father had Santini gone ahead with his malicious prosecution. Little bastard.
He thought about what he was going to say to Macmillan and where the Tracy Manson development might take him if – and it was a big ‘if’ – he were to be given the go-ahead to follow it up. The trouble was that it wasn’t strictly Sci-Med territory and he had agreed to pull out of Edinburgh if new DNA tests showed that Little was the guilty man beyond doubt.MoreLess
He thought about what he was going to say to Macmillan and where the Tracy Manson development might take him if – and it was a big ‘if’ – he were to be given the go-ahead to follow it up. The trouble was that it wasn’t strictly Sci-Med territory and he had agreed to pull out of Edinburgh if new DNA tests showed that Little was the guilty man beyond doubt.MoreLess
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