“Are we there yet?” Ellie asked the car, bored from too long behind the wheel. The landscape was dry after a summer with little rain and endless brown paddocks were dotted with giant round hay bales. Across to the west, storm clouds brewed, but so often they fizzled out as soon as making landfall.
She’d tried Gabi’s satellite phone again with no response. It wasn’t even ringing, so who knows where Gabi was. This might well be one long and tiring drive for nothing. But the further she got from the city, the more her heart lightened. To escape the worry and pressure of the past few days was a gift and reinforced her musing last night about her future life.
The car she’d noticed early was closer and was the same make and colour as Paul’s, but then again, the city was full of them. He was pr
