28: Epilogue
IT HAS BEEN A YEAR SINCE RUBY WAS GONE.
White borrowed his mate’s cottage for a week. Blue Rivers’ cottage was in Chalgrove, southwest of Oxford. It was a home-away-from-home kind of place for Blue’s mates, mostly ex-Paras. It was a place to recuperate in, a sanctuary to hide from all manners of evil, and a home to lick their wounds.
There was a key under the bushes. All they had to do was ask if the house was free.
He arrived late and was pleasantly surprised that the place was clean, the bed was made, and breakfast was available for the next day.
He had initially planned to go to Nebraska, but things got in the way, so he stayed and visited his place of old instead. Brize Norton, home of the Paras, was just an hour’s drive away. If he so wished, he could see some old fr
