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Holly stuffed the phone into her pocket.
“b***h,” she whispered at her mother’s grave because she was well and truly trapped.
“That didn’t sound good, Holl.”
She’d forgotten Quint was there.
“I have to be at the airport in two hours.”
He squinted at her. “There are only two flights a day out of Tennant Creek. First one just heads down the Alice and it isn’t for another four hours. If you’re wanting Darwin, that’s not until midafternoon.”
“Special flight. The RAAF is sending a Falcon for me.” She kicked a boot at the dirt. Not really intending to, she sprayed a layer of red dust over her mother’s new grave marker. She did it again, hoping she could obliterate it. The additional dirt merely slid off the angled plaque.
“s**t, woman. I thought it was me that Eli was being nice to la
