Chapter 25: Festus

Munich, 2014

"We cannot conclude that your husband is dead without any verifiable evidence," Clark was the first to break the silence that had engulfed the room.

Savannah exhaled but said nothing.

“Where is the proof that he is dead?” Clark demanded.

“We just heard it on the phone,” Michael responded for Savannah.

The reality of Savannah and Michael accepting that Robert Lond was dead surprised Clark.

“I want to meet him as much as you want to meet him but we all heard what the Singaporean woman said. Robert Lond is dead,” Michael continued.

“Savannah,” Clark urged, ignoring Michael “we did not come all the way from America to watch you accept a false statement from an unknown woman in an unknown place with an awkwardly symbolic number. If your husband was dead you should have known already. It will be better to forget what the woman said and look straight ahead at what lies up fro