Looking back, one can usually determine the moment when a new era came into being, whereas, at the time it is just one day after another. So it was when Ayse Ertem entered Garry Spencer’s life. The nightmare scourge ceased to exist, or so he thought, and quite naturally. It didn’t occur to him that Ayse had something to do with it, as she quietly introduced him to a level of contentment that he never knew existed.
Together again after several months apart, they discover new dimensions to their love-making. Laughing and sighing, they agree that the enforced abstinence was a price well-worth paying.
‘Never again,’ Ayse quickly adds. She reaches down a hand, her fingers delicately exploring . . .
Eventually, she falls asleep in Spencer’s arms, relaxed in a special way that both of them have come to expect. But in the early hours of this most uncertain of days, the fulfilling experience does not lead to contentment for Spencer. He trudges back down the years . . .