After getting him comfortable in the lounge with the ice and a beaker full of Glenmorangie, Vic got Angela and Sophia to kiss him and then quickly walked them to Tom’s in-laws next door for their routine drive to school.
All too soon, she returned. “Now, tell me everything. What the hell happened?”
Tom sipped his scotch and started his rehearsed speech. “After I spoke to you on the phone yesterday arvo, Bill, you know Bill, my SES volunteer area commander …”
“I know who Bill is!”
“Please, Vic, be patient. I’m still a bit foggy. Well, after backburning all day, I gave you a call and then, when I started packing up to go home, Bill invited me for dinner. So, I took him up on his offer. I didn’t know I was going to stay that late. It was just past two in the morning when I noticed the tim
