‘Ainu?’
‘Yes,’ Angie’s mother answered.
‘It’s Audrey,’ which was Sarge’s actual name.
‘Audrey, is everything okay with Dominic?’ Ainu asked, worried.
‘Yes, he’s fine,’ Audrey replied as she watched over the cricket pavilion. She watched over Dominic. She had his back, not that he knew. She was not sure he was quite up to it, but he had potential and well, she had no choice but to use him. What she had not anticipated was her growing fondness for him.
‘When can I see him?’
‘That is why I am calling,’ she saw Dominic, finally, using his phone. Most people would have called immediately for an ambulance, Dominic didn’t, and that was a promising sign, as was his suggestion she was about to put to his mother. He called it his pigsty thinking, which is what his dad called it. She had correc
