Hot Revenge Box Set 2

Chapter 10

Klempner

A voice echoes from outside the room. “Larry, what d’you think you’re doing in there? You really think you have a chance?”

“I might ask you the same question, Baxter.”

“Do you seriously think you can get out of there? You’re covered from all angles in a dead-end corridor. You’ve nowhere to go. Put the gun down and come out with your hands raised.

“Fuck you!”

There is a pause and the sound of movement and muttering, then, “If you don’t drop the weapon then we might have to take alternative action. We have a friend of yours with us. And to be fair, we have the money too.”

James…

A bluff?

Probably not…

“You going to take a look? He’s been missing you…”

And in the background, cursing; another voice I recognise.

Darting forward, then back, I risk a check around the door and down the corridor.

And yes, it’s James, battered and bruised but definitely not out of the game.

He looks fucking furious…

One eye is swollen almost shut, bruised to a shade of blue-crimson, the orb, a ball of blood. His head is raised against the muzzle pushing up at his chin to one side, the knife at his throat to the other. And I think his hands are cuffed behind him.

Standing to one side, Finchby, carrying something…

The money?

No… some kind of box…

More like a fisherman’s tackle box…

His grin is beyond irritating.

cradles a handgun, the

“Nice to see you, James. I wondered if you’d be joining the party.

“I’ve had

him? They have him?

His eyes meet

them kill him. You can’t.” She whimpers, then

over the scalp. She leans forward, trying to see over her distended belly then

looks beaten up, but mad

let

or not, and I imagine your little girl in

and a grunt. As I risk a look outside,

again, on a note of rising panic. “What are they doing? What are

into the corridor. Or we finish him. It’ll be slow and

another kick. To James’ credit, the only sound he

Oh,

She’s streaming tears. “Jenny, this

think we can fight our way past gunfire with Jenny and a new-born baby? At least this way, James is here

For now…

has a

don’t have to

outside again. “Throw out the weapon, Klempner. And remember we can see you on

Not quite true…

I’m below the camera…

inventory, then toss the gun out

outside, Larry. Hands

me

No… Finchby’s a gloater…

her face screwed up as she groans through another contraction, looks

“You handle your end of it.”

They stay safely at the far end of the corridor, standing

man with

nods his two heavies towards me. “Search

I recognise. Baxter’s sidekick from when

see you again,

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