”Aidan’s mind was in chaos, he was still trying to cope with the surprise, still hardly believing this was real, deliriously happy that it was and... Sam was really back.He stood aside to let her in, and she passed him quickly and went to the living room, he following. She shed her damp overcoat and he caught it and took it back to the hall stand. Then he had an idea. He slid the snib to the locking position to prevent the door from being opened with a key from the outside. Julie would not be able. A lot of the villages and resorts here are already under-utilised. These people will work if the work is there.”I’d come to like most of the people I’d met here. They were friendly people for the main part and just trying to get by in a troubled economy. The only guy I’d had a run-in with was a self-appointed arsehole.He hated tourists, especially if they didn’t smoke his weed or buy his pills. Adnan had warned me about him. One of his dealers had approached me the first week I was here and had. Pretty shallow sleep, I guess. Footsteps coming up the stairway. I glanced at the alarm clock. 4:30 a.m. I lay back down, feigning sleep, but with a good enough angle to see out of the corner of my eye. Linda came around the corner and stopped at the bathroom entrance. She looked my way for a brief moment. Her hair was up (the way she wears it when she cant do anything with it). She went in the bathroom and closed the door. The water ran for what seemed like an eternity. The door opened and I. As neatly as he could —which was far from neat considering the strange lubrification the snakes had — he blindfolded her with three layers of snakes and made a triple knot. Just to be sure."Fuck. Fucking cunt! Not the hair, though, sure is handy to have. Ain't that right boss?" The fat turd had just lost a friend, but not a speck of emotion remotely close to compassion on the bastard. Wait, the frown did look real. Was he too hasty in judging others?"Boss, look..." He looked to the monster,.