Chapter Twenty-five
Horse WhisperingEdin didn’t pee on the stick.
But Hana made a phone call to her brother’s partner as Bodie pushed the police car around the hazardous bends leading to the hotel. The paediatrician provided her with a raft of great ideas and she arrived at the house with a tentative sense of hope.
“Oh, dear!” she announced as she stepped into the kitchen. Edin turned to her from her precarious position balanced on a dining chair. She snipped up kawakawa leaves with a pair of round bladed scissors and dumped them into a rice cooker. Leslie had obviously decided to continue with her rongoā in view of the joyous news that Tama wasn’t at the morgue. Hana ignored the fact Edin stood on one leg and forced her eyes to widen in alarm. “All the toilets are broken,” she announce
