Cash sat in the kitchen of his house in Erskineville, said to Aimee, ‘I think she might have been planning to leave the country.’
‘But she was headed north.’
‘Yeah, I know, but there are airports on the Gold Coast, Brisbane. Darwin if she was serious about it.’
‘What was she like?’
‘The first thing that struck me was how plain-looking she was, but I could see too, if she got dressed up how beautiful she might be.’
‘It’s one of the oddest jobs you’ve had, I think.’
‘Yeah, it was a strange one.’
* * *
The next morning Cash drove to Glebe, went to the front door of the share house where Adam and Gina lived. Knocked on the door. Adam, bleary-eyed, opened the door. Cash said, ‘We need to talk.’
‘Oh, s**t, Jesus, not now, hey—’
Cash pushed him in the chest, said, ‘Inside, now.’
nowAda
