Immediately the "dinner turned catastrophe" was over, Ava excused herself from the dinning room, before any of the Dankworths did. There was no doubt they were going to have a long and brutally honest family discussion after what had happened. It would have been nice to stay back and listen, since she would soon be a part of the family as well. But, Ava knew she had more pressing issues to attend to.

Now that it was obvious she was not the only one who sought to send Roxanne to hell, ...