Hot Revenge Box Set 2

Chapter 15

Klempner

Although I can hear chaos from down the stairs, up here now, it’s quiet. There’s no-one in the dance room.

In the pool room, the only sound is the crunching of glass under my boots. I carry on to Finchby’s office.

All empty?

It seems so.

The time?

Time to go.

Except… as I’m about to turn and leave a girl, I see her; barely a teenager, some variety of Asian, Indian perhaps. Streaming tears, she skitters out from behind the desk, making for the kitchen.

I follow her and she cringes back into the corner. I offer my hand. “I’m not going to hurt you. You have to leave.”

She babbles at me in I’ve-no-idea-what language, then abruptly, her face swings up to mine and fingers outstretched, leaps up at me, clawing at my face. Reflexively, I jerk back, and she bolts past me and out, back the way I came.

Fuck!

I dash after her, but in the few seconds, she’s gone, vanished.

Where did she go?

Out?

Or somewhere deeper inside?

I check my watch… Three minutes…

Christ!

I have to find her… If she’s on the stairwell, perhaps I’ll hear her. I turn for the bar, heading for the stairs up and down, and there…

Fuck.

Baxter.

I reach for my Glock… And it’s not there.

Damn… When did I put it down?

Baxter flashes brows. And the knife in his hand. “Going somewhere?”

“I was planning on leaving.” I slip the knife from my belt. “Your friend Finchby has already left the building. I believe the money may be with him.”

“I’m not going to weep over Finchby. And I didn't do it for the cash. Well… mainly not for the cash. And I have my half anyway.”

We circle, eyeball to eyeball.

Make the first move?

Wait for him?

I move slowly, watching for the twitch of the hand. The nudge of the shoulder. The tell that he's going to stop talking and...

He slashes out… moves fast…

But it’s a feint and we both know it, calculated to draw a reaction from me.

Testing me…

My speed…

My reactions…

Younger than me...

How much by?

Ten years?

His knife...

inches. Well

Well used…

Left-handed…

that gives him

right-handers. I've done

Fast. Teeth

but I grab him by the arm. We grapple. His blade to my throat. My hand locked to his

close, I

Sweat. Sour.

sour scent

Not excitement.

Fear.

dancing back from me and suddenly I'm overreaching… off-balance… and I pull back

I lash for his neck but as he swings away, my fist lands in

bully forward, reaching for his blade, slashing out with

slash at his chest with my right hand and he twists away, still grinning manically, but

The other knife...

Ambidextrous?

from my right hand, my left

rib

Got you, you bastard…

it’s her. The

apparently blind to me and Baxter, she charges between us and

my foot skids

Drinks slops?

Blood?

In slow motion...

arms wind-milling for

I go down...

Baxter’s on top

…

as his

rasp of

metallic

Whose?

Mine…

me, grinning maniacally, he hovers, enjoying his

reaches into his jacket, he

My Glock?

aiming for my forehead, he

use the

got the balls

wildly, one way

There are none.

straight up the barrel of my own fucking

Is this it?

this

Of all the ways I could have died over the years, I’m taken out by

I didn’t

Live by the sword…

these moments. The brain does odd

think

muzzle of the gun looms close and huge. The rest of

My throat tightens…

smooth, and drips honey and contempt in equal measure… “A hero with a gun and a knife against an unarmed man. And

know

swing to its owner.

feet in the spiked heels. The matching skirt just clears the crotch and the

white shoulders and frames a face made up with emerald eyes painted Goth-dark and fuck-me

“Mitch?”

admit it.

So does Baxter.

women offering their all. But nothing compares to Mitch

like

little curved to strike a pose. And with an eye on Baxter

zipper tag dangles, an open silver loop. She hooks a finger into the loop and tooth by tooth, slides the

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