Gemma was quite surprised to find that Jake was a careful driver, though when she thought about it it made sense. The car clearly had huge amounts of care and attention lavished on it, which also explained why he got quite so angry when she stepped out in front of it. How would he have reacted to a dent, or even blood stains?
She was also surprised to find her travelling companions easy to talk to. Jake was polite and pleasant, nothing like the ball of anger she’d first met, and Stan… Stan was surprisingly gentle. Gemma felt quite sorry for him, jammed in the back of the car, though with his size she doubted he’d even be able to get into most modern cars.
They’d been driving along, chatting happily, for ten or fifteen minutes before she realised she was actually feeling quite relaxed
