CHAPTER 26
HOME SWEET HOME. Well, at least for one night, and it wasn’t so much a home as a small hotel on the edge of a bloody great forest. With fifty of us going, we’d been divided among two establishments, and Joe and I had been lucky enough to get assigned to the same place as Sonia and her minions. Wonderful. Just when I thought the weekend couldn’t possibly get any worse.
I locked the envelope full of papers in the glove compartment while Joe hefted our cases out of the boot. Despite a small detour halfway where we may have found a quiet car park to christen the backseat, we’d made good time, and according to the information folder in our room, the bar and restaurant would be open for another half hour.
“Do you want to get something to eat?” I asked.
He turned and waggled his ey
