The Dangerous Counterpart

The Dangerous Counterpart

Author: Claire Dunlevy Listening Length: 11h 12m
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Season Seven of Universe Below has been announced, and Eloise Silver, until now known mainly for an Australian soap opera and a run of ice-cream commercials, is promoted to the lead. Her sharpest credit remains a prime-time performance as the wife of a real-life mob boss. Estella Grant is no longer only that wife: afte...

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The car ride home was agonising. Estella had sometimes wondered what Kenneth really knew about her, from years of following her for protection and driving her around the city.

He’d seen her at her worst. She knew suddenly that he’d understood more than she’d suspected by the way he just nodded silently when she’d said take us home instead of take me home, Ellie sliding into the backseat next to her.

He kept his eyes fiercely averted toward the road the whole way home like he was paid purely to stare at the white lines on the asphalt.

Ellie was silent too. She stayed utterly still, her own gaze fixed out the window like she’d never seen the lights of Melbourne city glide by before.