Listening in.

Julie was not so shy about standing at another door eaves-dropping. Later she came up to my room, sat down and made an afternoon of it.

'Vera said she had the video stored in a safe place, and if Larissa didn’t drop the gate issue, the police may get hold of it and then they would add dangerous driving if not driving with undue care and attention to the charge list. Larissa wanted to play the private property card, but Vera said . . .' She paused to get Vera’s words right. The sentence came a word at a time. 'Vera said, even if she was on private property, it was her intent to enter the public highway in a reckless manner, and for that the police were after her.'

'Wow!' was all I could manage. 'Vera said she would destroy the video!'

Julie gave a mocking laugh.

'Wake up, Millie. Vera will keep that for a rainy day. No woman would give up a lever as powerful as that. What video did she mean? What was on it?'

'No idea,' I lied.

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