Espial Headquarters, three weeks later
A lone figure stood outside the Wallaby Bay Espial Headquarters and took a deep breath. He had travelled all the way from Sydney and was looking forward to seeing the wife and daughter he had lost contact with six years ago.
He has no idea how they were going to react to seeing him again. He just hoped that they would understand what he had been through. Quashing his rising anxiety and summoning up his inner courage, he made his way to the main entrance.
Since Joan Alford’s sad departure, Gaia had volunteered to take her place and was currently sitting at the reception desk, typing up a memo.
The structure of the Espial was still in slight disarray with Ally on grievance leave, following Steve’s death, and no one quite knew when she was going t
