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I opened it. But I guess that was just what he was looking for, because he offered me a lift home and had my knickers off and my knockers bouncing before the windscreen of his coach was even half fogged over.
    Nate had been a truckie once, but by the time I met him he was driving tourist buses up and down the east coast. Most of the passengers were oldies wanting to see the country but too scared or frail to brave the distances on their own. Nate was like the cheeky but dependable grandson they all wished for. And for his part he got to be on the road but without the pressure that turned so many truckies into pill heads. ‘Australia at a leisurely pace’ was the catchphrase of the mob he worked for.
    Once him and me hooked up, though, he gave away the long-haul route and picked up the day-trip run from here to the small towns further west. I didn’t ask him to. He wanted to be home with me every night. Incredible. Man like him, girl like me . . . I knew how lucky I was, believe me. Didn’t stop me from fucking everything up though.
    But I mustn’t have burnt every last bit of his love for me to the ground, because here he was in my kitchen taking care of me like the last decade had never happened. He checked that I’d made all the calls I needed to then turned my phone off. He made me a cheese sandwich, which I ate almost half of, and a cup of tea, which I drank. Then he dosed me with what he called ‘ten-hour guarantees’. I told him I could never imagine sleeping again but I let him put me to bed anyway. He got in beside me and there was no need to talk about that. I backed up into his plank of a chest and he pulled me in with those enormous arms and I sank into sleep like it was five years ago and there was nothing to worry about except whether he’d still be here in the morning.

Tuesday, 7 April

    AustraliaToday.com
    â€˜Beautiful Bella’ viciously mauled
    May Norman
    7 April 2015
    A ‘terribly mauled’ body found yesterday by a traveller taking a roadside cigarette break has been identified as that of Bella Michaels, a 25-year-old aged-care worker from Strathdee, in south-western New South Wales. Ms Michaels had been missing for a little over two days when emergency services received a call from a distressed Melbourne man reporting his gruesome find.
    â€˜The gentleman stopped at an expanse of grass and scrub just past the Strathdee exit heading south. His intention was to stretch his legs and have a cigarette while his kids were sleeping in the car. It’s a lucky thing they didn’t wake up and decide to come look for Daddy,’ a police spokesman said this morning.
    Local police arrived at the scene to find a body which an officer who had known Ms Michaels recognised as hers. Official identification was later made by Ms Michaels’ sister.
    Police are so far declining to reveal how Ms Michaels died or whether she had been sexually assaulted, but unconfirmed reports from those on the scene suggest she was, in the words of the man who found the body, ‘terribly mauled’. Detective Sergeant John Brandis, who is leading the investigation, would not comment on whether this mauling may have occurred after death, but locals point to the presence of many wild dogs and cats in the area and the fact that the body may have been out in the open since Friday night.
    Ms Michaels was last seen leaving Strathdee Haven, the nursing home where she worked, just after 5 pm on Friday. Her car was parked less than a three-minute walk away, but she never reached it. Staff and residents at Strathdee Haven are ‘in shock, just absolutely stunned’, according to manager Cathryn Charles. ‘She was an essential part of the team here, always going above and beyond and always with a smile on her face. It beggars belief that this could’ve happened to her, and right here on our doorstep it seems.’
    Det. Brandis said that so far door-to-door interviewing in