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‘Just drive, Stanley’

‘Nice little thing, if you don’t ’

‘I’m about to make an important call, and as a matter of fact I do mind’

‘You’ll need to be careful with that one, sir’

Sergio gave up He had employed Stanley for over ten years—rescued him from an inner city project that aimed to rehabilitate petty criminals and chronically out of workthem up in stable jobs

It was one of the lomerate of companies

Soarden centres, building sites, in restaurants Stanley, aged twenty-eight now, once an expert car thief, had coainst all odds

Stanley was irreverent, outspoken, unirateful to have been rescued froone bad, thanks to circuio to get hiht track

Sergio secretly enjoyed his driver’s lack of due respect He was loyal, would have lain down in front of a train for Sergio, and he knew cars like the back of his hand

‘I expect you’re about to tell me why?’

‘Only if you want me to, sir Wouldn’t want to overstep my brief’

‘Spit it out, Stanley, and then focus on the road I don’t want to end up in a ditch because you’re busy i attention to your driving Don’t forget that your terms of employment are to drive me and not talk incessantly’

It was not yet five in the evening, but already dark, with a fine persistent drizzle that h they had been covered with a fine layer of oil

‘She’s not like the other wo, sir This one’sdifferent Don’t askher back’