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Leave me alone
Vinny needed…
I said Leave. Me. Alone…I don’t want to hear it…I don’t want anything more to do with you.
Eve…please I…
Fuck off Suki…You really are the heartless bitch everyone thinks you are.
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Get out of my way.
Why?...what are you gonna do about it?
I’m warning you Vinny. Do not push me.
I saw you talking to Mum earlier...thought I told you to stay away.
She spoke to me...Now get out of my way little boy.
Don’t you dare...
Oh I dare Vinny...I can snap you like a twig and throw the bits into the middle if next week. NOW MOVE!
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We’re gonna be short on the electric again this month unless mystery man wants a few more private chats
Stace I’m so sorry...I’m tapping as many of my old mates as I can think of to try and get some work. And...
Eve, it’s fine...OK?...You supported us all that time the van was closed.. Now it’s my turn to support you...It’s what wives do!...Something will turn up, it always does.
Hmm
Well nearly always does... Sometimes.
Maybe your pervy bloke would be in to hot prison wives!
Ha!...He probably would an all!
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She’s your wife...Ask her.
I did...but it seems like there’s more going on that people are telling me.
Well like Vinny said...My face don’t fit...Looks like she’s not as over her ‘issues’ with me being a lesbian as we thought.
But...
Look Nish...You sacked me...So I don’t have to explain anything to you...But I DON’T make mistakes on contracts...I was an experienced lawyer...Not a no nothing intern.
So...
Just leave me alone...I’ve got nothing to say to you or you wife.
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You orchestrated the whole thing.
I...
Vinny tries to kill me...You covered for him...Finlay worked out it was him...You got the family thug to threaten him...Vinny couldn’t resist playing the big man again. Goading Finlay...You get some hired goons to batter his livelihood to bits...THEN...during Lola’s wake, you threaten his brothers life unless he leaves the square within 24 hours...Have I missed anything?
How?...I?...
Finlay - he thought I should know it all started because your darling son was out for my blood.
I needed to protect Vinny...Finlay was going to go to the police...And then he mentioned you...
So you didn’t just force him to leave because you were trying to keep Vinny's secret – you did it to keep your own.
Our secret.
Not mine...It’s you who needs it keeping secret.
Nish will...
Forget it...I don’t want to hear it...You’re as evil as he is...What the hell did I ever see in you?
Eve...
No...I honestly thought underneath it all, you were a good person...The bad things you’d done were out of necessity. Or really bad choices like Jags...But none of this...You terrorised a young bloke who’d done nothing wrong...Forced him to leave his family...Would you have gone through with killing Felix if Fin hadn’t gone...God, you and Nish...You deserve each other...You’re like some fucking Mafia Mother
Eve.
God, I had such a lucky escape from you.
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Eve...
Not intere...
Eve it was...
We don’t have anything to say...
It was him!
Him who?...What?
Nish...It was Nish who pushed me.
How do you...
Can I please come in?
OK
Tea?
Coffee, please.
So you’ve what...Had a flashback or something?
It’s come back in bits over the last few days.
How?
Really vivid dreams to start with...But I kept waking up...
Before the good bit?
Eve!
You’ve assumed I’m interested.
Eve, please. In my dream, Nish comes back when I’m packing...He sees the case...I tell him I’m leaving...We’re arguing at the top of the stairs...Then I’d wake up.
So how are you so sure he did it now...When you publicly... Very publicly defended him?
We’re going away for the weekend.
Aww. A romantic getaway?
Business.
Shame.
The point is...I was at the top of the stairs, with my case and when I stopped at the top...It was like watching a film...I saw him gripping my arms...shaking me and yelling, calling me names...I was trying to get out of his grip but he was so strong...He was so angry I saw this glint of...something evil in his eye...Then he pushed me.
He pushed you?...You definitely didn’t just lose your footing? You were pretty sure he didn’t lay a finger on you.
He pushed me...He definitely pushed me...I could feel the fear...I could smell coffee on his breath...my upper arms hurt...it was like it was happening again...I watched myself fall down the stairs...I came to at the bottom of the stairs...him leaning over me.
You need to tell the police.
They won’t believe me...Not after I told them it wasn’t him...Nish’ll kill me if he finds out.
So don’t.
I need your help Eve.
And I need to get to work.
Please Eve.
Ask Vinny...He’s your family.
He’ll be on his Father’s side after...
Like I said...I need to get to work.
Eve...
Suki...Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
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What’s the matter with you?...That’s the third order you’ve mucked up this afternoon.
Sorry Stace...Suki came round just before I was coming out.
Didn’t you do that twenty odd years ago?
Haha!
So what did that witch want? Ain’t she done enough damage.
She said she’s remembered it was Nish.
What?
That he pushed her down the stairs...he found her while she was packing... Went totally ballistic ...Shook her...Pushed her down the stairs.
OK...Well it’s not like we don’t know he’s capable.
No, I know...I thought it was him but Suki was so sure it wasn’t...
Look, Eve, don’t let her get in your head again...She made her bed...
He’s dangerous though Stace.
And so is she!...You had a lucky escape mate...Just put her out of your mind and put some more onions on.
Can always rely on you Stace!