When Jay arrived at the tenement house where Bryan, together with Dave, hired the apartment, she stopped the engine and stayed in the car for a while. She was watching her boyfriend walking around the living room in a worm light coming out from a fireplace, as she supposed. He looked upset. He was talking by the phone and from time to time he was combing his hair nervously. She leaned her hands on the steering wheel, her head on them and studied calmly his face and body language, which clearly said that something was wrong. In every gesture he made, she could see nerves, his muscles were strained to the limits and he tried very hard not to lose control over himself.
Jay knew that the Weakfields are having a dispute with Leonor’s distant cousin, who claimed rights to the land where
