’ ‘Oh God,’ she answered, turning around to stare at him. ‘I warned you what was going to happen if you didn’t change that ad but you wouldn...’t be told, would you?’ ‘I’ve already made it clear to Eric that I remember fighting both of you to send it out the way I wanted it. It was my ad and I’ll take the blame if it’s a cockup.’ ‘You certainly will. Come on then, let’s get it over with.’ Inside the bunker Brian had no thought of looking out of the windows at the thirty storey panoramic view. “Oh fuck me.” It was the Franklin women.Derek followed my eyes. “What is it? You know them?”I rested my head on my hands and deadpanned “Sure do.”“Ben? Ben! Hi, hon!” I groaned as the ever-chipper Babette strolled to the table. She gave Derek a once over on the way before fixing me with her penetrating stare. She had large blue eyes the color of robins’ eggs and they were so light as to be almost transparent, giving her an ethereal and almost supernatural intensity. It was difficult to break. Two were former regular SEALs, who Adam knew tangentially. Both gave him a serious nod as he dropped his pack nearby and took a drink.It was another hundred yards into a narrow cut in the mountainside before they reached the cave itself. The thick underbrush was hacked away and used to give the SAD campsite greater camouflage near the trail. A small generator was hooked up to several portable lights, which their guide cranked as the four men clustered around the arched stone.Adam looked around. They have been trying to corrupt the de Vaal line of inheritance. But why? What do they gain?”“His daughter,” Trae said. “Is she not a de Vaal?”“Oh, my! But Jasmine is only sixteen. My Aunt’s death, fifteen years ago was also strange. My mother still says it was foul play and she didn’t understand why her older sister married him either,” Deirdre said.Francine added, “I remember that Lady Sara told me, at a party over the winter season, that Carl’s first wife dying in childbirth wasn’t true..