Chapter Nineteen
Alina & Melanie
Back in London, in the bedroom of a home and a wife Tim Kennedy had both underestimated and treated shabbily, a form of electricity guaranteed to provide a physical response of a more elevated kind was at work.
“Did you send Katya the copies of the newspaper she requested, Melanie?” asked Alina, referring to the free local rag that had carried the story of the disappearance and embezzlement of the husband that had, despite her own active involvement in setting it up, caused the older woman much embarrassment with family and neighbours; though they had been mostly – completely, in fact - sympathetic to the “poor deserted wife”.
“This morning,” Melanie told her, mind preoccupied, as it was always preoccupied when she was close to the girl, with more tangi
