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"I orried that she'd been sick or so," he said as he lifted her onto his lap He had parked hiainst the ith his legs straight out in front of hiainst furniture

"Wesurprise He barely reacted

"Cool"

"One of theo and visit the rest of his family in Dundee, so we drove up and stayed at the estate on Saturday night Marcus and Fergus met us there"

"How are those two?" Mark looked up frorinned back "Sa You should have seen the those two fight? That's not fair How did that happen? Start over"

So I did I told him about the encounter with Oliver at the airport, and about the trip up to theirout the bits about Bill Colborne's death, and the fact that Oliver was Jack's biological son I tried to tell it as we'd lived it, occasionally shuddering as I shared our experiences of the past four days I glossed over soorier bits, but I should have known better Mark wanted details Lots and lots of disgusting details I wondered howa future vaer Hard to say, really Either way I had to give hi vaer by the minute, and after a while I wondered if he had stopped breathing I paused for atwo steaave a bark of laughter Mark appeared to coer iggle at the uncharacteristic language

"That's what Angus said," I told hius chuckled at that and handed us our coffees and disappeared back into the kitchen I wondered what gour in there that de us soround I shtfulness Mark objected, and toldso damn soppy and crack on with the story