Chapter Five
Overbury knew Northridge reasonably well. He had after all been putting it to a coltish young thing yet to leave her teens and taking a teaching degree at the nearby California State University – whenever, that is, her parents were away from the family home in neighbouring Porter Valley. A carefree time – even if he was married at the time – that seemed light years away to him now.
Pulling his decidedly out of place Dodge onto the extensive drive of the Prakash’s gated and secluded estate, he couldn’t help but feel a twinge – more like a full blown punch to the guts to be factual – of pain at the knowledge the geek had come so far while he…
It was galling.
The only reason he’d been able to make the trip from Whittier trailer-park to Northridge-Estate had been the money for
