Chapter Twenty-Seven: Vyacheslav TrubnikovIt was one week to the day of Hannah's death and the funeral arrangements were finalised. She was to be buried in the Hesse family mausoleum at their stately home in Brockenhurst, in the New Forest, Hampshire. Hannah's older brother and Samuel Rothschild, one of her godparents, had organised all the necessary arrangements. I wanted the operation at Zaragoza and Cilicia Kudashov's staged abduction over and dealt with before my mind could manage to say goodbye to my dead wife.
I instructed the pathologist not to release her body until the Tuesday following on from, hopefully, the successful outcome of both those operations.
I had not contacted Hannah's brother, who lived at the Manor, since his rude denunciation of me. I rectified that on Thursday
