The Newcomer by Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Author:Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC019000, FIC050000
Publisher: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
Published: 2021-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

KUKA PLANA

There was a certain kind of Fairfolk guy Jesse Camilleri had always assumed he was better than: the kind who hung out at the airport in high season, trawling for fresh meat. Until the day he was waiting for his sister to disembark her flight from Brisbane and saw Bunny White stepping onto the tarmac, looking fresher than milk-fed veal.

‘Whew! New mainie in town,’ whistled Grandy Greatorex, who had a wife and three kids at home — not that that ever stopped him.

‘Sweet legs,’ echoed Kristian King. ‘How long you bet till I’m between ’em?’

Jesse wouldn’t have recognised her either, looking like a mainie in that bejewelled T-shirt, white denim skirt. Wouldn’t have given her a second glance, if it wasn’t for her flying into the arms of the same man he’d fantasised, many times, about beating to a pulp.

‘That’s nay mainie, brudda,’ Jesse said. ‘That’s Rabbit’s kid.’

They were all quiet for a moment, watching Bunny’s skirt inch up her thighs as she hugged her dad; tightening around her sweet little arse as she kissed Rita.

‘She’s grown,’ Kristian marvelled. ‘Reckon she’s been broken in yet?’

Jesse spotted his sister, Janey, descending the staircase with her two little girls. He finished his beer and took another look at Bunny.

‘This one’s mine,’ he told the guys.

‘Saw that TV program,’ Janey told him, eating a late dinner of spaghetti and meatballs after putting the girls to bed. ‘About your girlfriend.’

Jesse dabbed sauce from his lips. ‘She wasn’t my girlfriend.’

‘Jus’ friends,’ their dad, Joe, backed him up with a wink.

‘You looked like more than friends when I walked in on you two dry-humping on New Year’s Eve.’

‘Everyone hooks up on New Year’s.’ Jesse flushed. ‘And that was two years ago. Can you leave it alone?’

‘Leave it alone, Janey.’ Joe flicked him a pitying look. ‘It was what it was.’

Janey forked a meatball and sucked off the sauce.

‘Why do you have to eat them like that?’ Jesse cringed. ‘It’s verly gross, eh.’

Janey got an evil glint in her eye, kept doing it. Then she stopped and said, ‘If you were just friends, why are you still single?’

‘Jesus-fuck.’ Jesse put down his fork. ‘Why do you have to know everything?’

‘She deserved better, eh.’ Janey frowned. ‘After that ex-boyfriend. What was his problem? Slagging off a dead girl on national TV.’

Jesse shrugged. ‘She cheated on him.’

‘Probably had a good reason. Seemed like a controlling little prick.’ Janey sighed. ‘Her poor mother. All alone. I can’t imagine.’

Jesse shovelled more spaghetti into his mouth. Her poor mother didn’t cut it. Didn’t come close to what he’d felt, seeing Judy Novak’s tear-streaked face on TV.

A woman to kill for. That was the feeling.

Janey read his mind. ‘Still think it was Rabbit?’

‘Aye.’ Jesse met her gaze. ‘He was obsessed with her.’

‘Could say the same about you.’

A few days later, Rita came into Camilleri’s to pester him about her Christmas ham. She brought Bunny with her.

‘Sorry, Rita,’ Jesse apologised. ‘Seven kilo’s the biggest we’ve got.’

Bunny was wearing board shorts, a white T-shirt that showed a pale strip of tummy.

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