Nonetheless, it was enough for Jake to begin his insurance claim, backed by an official police report detailing the arson. This he explained to Heather, but she wasn’t really interested. She’d brought the magnetometer as an excuse to meet up with her husband because she needed to tell him that she wanted a divorce.
She should never have married him, she’d decided. Her real love was archaeology and he’d swept her up in the adventure of discovering King Aldfrith’s tomb, which had given an enormous boost to her career. For this, she would be forever grateful to Jake, but no matter how fond she was of him – he had many positive characteristics – she now realised that it wasn’t the all-consuming, passionate love affair she’d dreamed of as a girl. If anything, she preferred older, more mature m
