Chapter 39

• Darkness surrounds the car. It intermittently rocks as each car speeds past us on the busy street. I sit behind the wheel diagonally opposite Oscar’s café. We are waiting for Cameron who is having coffee with the girls. They don’t know we are here. My elbow is on the window and I swipe the side of my pointer back and forth over my lips as I think.
• “What do you think they are talking about?” Adrian sighs from the passenger seat as he stretches and puts his feet onto the dash.
• I shrug without answering.