27. The Contract

Nico is curious. "Professor, you have never told anyone what happened to your wife, your son and his wife and you have never reported them somewhere as missing?” Professor Johan frowns and you can see the words hurt when he answers: "I lost all of them in India in a wild car chase in an effort to get away. Only Martie and I survived and I ran away with her. Luckily I ducked into the right ashram where believers hid us for two years because the web of the organization was everywhere. There I got direct tuition from a swami and studied classical Sanskrit and built up a rich knowledge of the Vedic culture. Eventually, we were smuggled out of India by the ISKCON movement. I was disguised as a swami and Martie as a baby of an ISKCON woman in the group that eventually travelled to South Africa. "You must realize, my wife and I, as well as my daughter in law, were orphans so they were my only family. We were a very close-knit family. Do you now understand why Martie is my all and everything