Back on the forklift, Benny thought about Travis's offer. It had to be drugs. The last thing he wanted was to get himself in trouble. After the magistrate threatened to send him to jail if he re-offended, he decided to become smarter about the way he did things and learned how to pick locks. It was that combined with pure luck that had got him this far without any further run-ins with the police. But he didn’t want to push his luck by getting involved with drugs.
He hoped that Travis wouldn't be too annoyed with him for turning down his offer, and make his life more difficult than usual. At 7.00 a.m. the whistle blew. Benny parked the forklift, ready for the morning shift to take over. He swiped his card to knock off, jumped on his bike and pedalled out the front gate.
As he rode along t
