26‘You in a hurry, Doc? The Grand Prix isn’t till next March.’
It was just after six am, and Vince and Elena were a few kilometres out of town on the Princes Highway heading for Melbourne. Vince had a full day of appointments. Apart from the VMDA, he had to see the Medical Board, the VMIA and Professor Lachlan McKenzie, culminating in the Parent-Teacher interviews for the girls in the evening. The only bright spot was the slap-up feed he’d promised the twins after their sentences were passed.
Elena was catching a ride with him for an introductory day at Detective Training School. Vince was to drop her in the city and then she planned to catch the bus out to the Police Academy at Mt Waverley. He’d noticed she was sans uniform and wearing a lovely orange flower-print spring dress, her hair
