At least you shouldn’t be lonely.”
“Well, I did have a visitor. Sex vedio I think he’s missing his Mom.”
“Sounds like you’re having fun.”
“The work is easy, with just helping a few seniors at bed time and mornings and being on call overnight. Dirty girl is ours, so go pull your own little trailer. And with you being gone for several days anyway, it all just seemed like good timing. Cairns ain’t gonna go away.”
“Cheers Pete. Love you. “We’re short on staff, and Serge said he could spare you for a few days. I was just stunned, him coming out with it like that, using those words and looking at me the way he did. Call the cops?”
“No, it’s Ok. It was lashing rain by the time I arrived. I think they’re short-handed.”
“They’re struggling for staff here too. “Had tiring shift. I’ve not seen my wife for nearly a month.” I say to my boss back at home base. At 3 am the ping of a text woke me. Cairns ain’t gonna go away.”
“Cheers Pete. I hung on every word of Mom’s unnerving answer. and I knew if I looked in the whites of her eyes, whatever she was like, I’d end up with an unwanted passenger, but against my better judgement I said, “OK.”
……
It was just after 6 am when I walked
