The onscreen eyes were deadly serious.
“Is that understood?”
“Yes, yes, Katya!” Alina sighed exasperatedly. “Will you please begin?”
With a nod and no further words, Katya rose from the computer and vanished from sight.
In no more than a few seconds, Alina’s curiosity about the fate in store for her new partner’s former husband and Melanie’s for the man who had ruled and stifled her existence for so long would find themselves answered…
Epilogue
Człowiek-Pies
The couple walking through the centre of Stonehaven had long since become a part of the scenery and the conjecture and wild surmises – none of them as wild as the real thing – had soon reduced themselves to the odd comment and then to barely anything at all.
As is commonplace with all mediocrities described as “the public” – an
