Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

cheating and tried to get me to cheat with her. Now for manywomen, they would automatically assume the man hadcheated. Ava, however, has system logs that will show whathe actually did, and it was for those logs, as well as his beliefin the church, that he acted the way he did.She would have no reason to review those logs if hedidn't bring the time and place to her attention. If he saidnothing, it was quite likely Ava would never know she hadbeen there. There was another problem with that, if he didn'ttell her and she found out later... He didn't want to thinkabout what that would mean.7:45pm Tues. Jan. 24, 2384He crossed the small plaza to the cathedral, reviewing thespat in his mind. He wasn't sure what started it, he had beenanswering her absently thru the parody of a dinner togethershe prepared for them. It had been hell battling the requisitionthru for the larger chamber he was going to need to pursuestudies of higher order condensates and that was on his mindthru the whole dinner. He had no good reason of his own forneeding it, and 'some crewman driving an over-amped cherubtold me so,' was not going to sway Heymon. He was prettymuch reduced to calling it a hunch. He didn't know thepolitics involved and had to make a personal appeal toElmore for help with that.162