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.

Baxter cradles a

wondered if you’d

“I’ve had better

“Is that him? They have

stills. His eyes meet mine then

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

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

up,

Michael, her face contorted. “Don’t let them hurt

it or not, and I imagine

There’s a crunch and a grunt. As I risk a look outside, James is on the ground, Finchby planting

“What are they doing? What are they doing

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

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

Oh, God,

“Jenny…” She’s streaming tears. “Jenny,

you think 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 him any

For now…

has a

don’t have

again. “Throw out the weapon, Klempner. And remember we

Not quite true…

I’m below the camera…

a quick mental inventory, then

Larry.

shoot me on

No… Finchby’s a gloater…

through another contraction, looks

at her. Pointing a finger, “You handle your

They stay safely at the far end of the corridor,

saw a man with

heavies towards me. “Search him. He’ll have other

Baxter’s sidekick from when he

you again, Hickman. Just like

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