Chapter 37
The climb to the house appeared steep and unforgiving in the twilight. An unexpected visitor left his bike at the bottom of the driveway, fearful it might skid and slide on the loose gravel and tip him over one of the sharper faces of the hillside. Darkness grew around him without the soft haze of streetlights to break its impact and he stuck to the ridge of grass at the side of the driveway.
Finding Hana absent from Achilles Rise and only Tiger sitting in the first floor window, Logan drove to Ngaruawahia in pursuit. Her sudden animosity confused and frightened him. The house looked dark from the front, but the sloping driveway revealed his truck, parked askew. The back seats bent forwards and a dent from something heavy left a mark in the gravel behind the bumper. Walking fo
