15 Love and DespairThey sat in silence eating their roast lamb dinner. Clay was the first to crack, fumbling his excuses for accepting the case file from Taylor.
‘It won’t affect my work - I’ll look at it in my own time and it’s always good to keep an eye on associated investigations.’
‘This is not about focus and you know it. Christ, you don’t even know for sure these so-called investigations are related. You’re only just over the worst and already you’re jumping straight back into the saddle. And for your information - it’s not your time, it’s our time.’
‘It makes perfect sense to me - a corporate petrol head and the president of the CFC both getting what you could call poetic justice.’
‘Oh so you’re judge and jury now, are you?’
‘That’s not what I mean and you know it! We leave tha
