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Lauren tapped my arm from the passenger seat. “It’s next left.”
I slowed Mum’s Lexus and took the corner she pointed to like she thought me too dumb to get it without direction. “How far now?”
“Not far.” She jigged a little in her seat, tucking her hands beneath her thighs, tugging them out again, under, out. “You see that grassland over there?” She jerked with her chin.
“Yep.”
“My house is on the other side.”
“We’ll need to find somewhere to park up on this side, then.” I slowed to a crawl, glancing at her between checking the road in front. “You recall how we said you’d—”
“Yeah, yeah, I got it,” she said, rolling her eyes. “There’s a massive tree if you keep going to the end. You can hide behind that.”
I sped up again, kept going right on past the ‘massive tree’ until I found
