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.

side of James, Baxter cradles a

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

“I’ve had better

“Is that him? They have him? Is he hurt?” Then she breaks

eyes meet

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

legs, a head is emerging. Bloodied, with a scrape of dark hair plastered over the scalp. She leans forward, trying to see over

up, but

back against Michael, her face contorted. “Don’t let them hurt him. Oh,

“Drop the gun, Larry. We’re coming in like it or not, and I

you. You’re not using me to…” There’s a crunch and a grunt. As I risk a look

a note of rising panic. “What

Kick it into the corridor. Or we finish him. It’ll be slow and it’ll be noisy and she’ll hear every

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

them hurt him. Stop them. Oh, God, Father, please stop them. I’ve

turn. “Jenny…” She’s streaming tears. “Jenny, this isn’t

we can fight our way past gunfire with Jenny and a new-born baby? At least this way, James is here with Charlotte and they’ll not do

For now…

a

have to like

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

Not quite true…

I’m below the camera…

suck air, run a quick mental inventory, then toss the gun out into the

outside, Larry. Hands

shoot me on

No… Finchby’s a gloater…

as she groans through another contraction, looks

“You handle your

stay safely at the far

I saw a man with murder in his

towards me. “Search him. He’ll have

I recognise. Baxter’s sidekick from when he sprang me from

see you again, Hickman. Just like old

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