Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

wondered if it was someone from Theology testing hismarital vows. He had been neglecting Ava too much latelyand she was complaining about it. Maybe she wascomplaining to more than just him. He wondered if that couldhave been one of her girlfriends. Only Glenelle would havethe sauce to pull that off. She went to the top of his suspectlist for a while.He checked the verandah and her lab first, and didn't findher in either place. He called up their bulletin-board.Since it's late again, I'm taking Alfred and Vic up on theirdinner invitation, so if you need me you can find me overthere. Who knows, I could be back and gone to bed by thetime you get out of that lab.It was too late, he shouldn't run over there. He wanted tobe with her. He would have turned down the McReadys justto be with her. But he hadn't, he'd gone over the impactor'scourse corrections, just wanting to finish that up and get itdone. And once again, time had gotten away from him. Hewished he could do like Alan did in his hack, and get as manyclock cycles as the remainder of the crew combined.He fretted intensely over what to tell Ava about hisvisitor. She had come here to accuse her of infidelity, and toget him to engage in infidelity. Doing so would leave him ina lot weaker position in court, should it come to that. He hadto present it to her as some bitch on the crew accused you of161