After that first day, we established a fairly mundane routine. It didn’t take too long for me to settle in, and within a matter of weeks it felt as if I’d lived with James all my adult life.
He would go off to Victoria Street, and I would remain at home, for the most part catching up on all the reading I’d intended to do but could never find time for, fiction as well as professional periodicals. I was especially intrigued by the works of Robert Ludlum, who I’d first discovered in the airport at Rio. Espionage, conspiracy, intrigue…
And when James came home, he would catch me up on what was going on at NS3 and Alpha Squad.
Wilson, his parents’ butler, would come by once or twice a week to drop off meals Mrs Wilson was kind enough to prepare for us. It was sad, but neither James nor I cou
