Chapter TenBefore leaving the laboratory, Charles Hammond spent several hours examining the machines. He needed to know why they had suddenly gone out of control. Obviously, with the safety guards turned off, there'd been fail-safe mechanism in place to shut them down once they erupted and that was something else he would have to check out. However, for the moment his concerns were on finding out the cause of the eruption. Some time later he went home to shower and change or at least that was what he told his staff. The real reason was to see Irene – who remained blissfully unaware of the tragedy that had befallen him personally, career wise, and potentially the two of them, if Sarah was …no, he refused to think of Sarah in that way. The thought of telling Irene the true horror of it all

