"Caroline was my assistant. Purely professional. You can ask anybody. She was my..."

Friend? Come to think of it, said the whiskey, from in the recesses of Cave's mind, you don't actually have any friends do you? She's the closest thing you have. Well, HAD, if she doesn't make it out of this test.

"It was a purely professional relationship. Ask anyone."

He kept repeating the words, hoping that background noise would drown out the truth the whiskey was trying to force upon him.