Hot Revenge Box Set 2
Chapter 20
James
But downstairs in my playroom, Klempner is nowhere to be seen. Neither is he in the laundry, the boiler room or anywhere else.
Finchby has vanished too.
Michael regards the empty spot. Clicking a thumbnail against his teeth. “There’s only one way he could have gotten out.”
“Yes, there is. Michael, Klempner knew the tunnel existed. How long d'you think it would have taken him to find it if he was seriously looking?”
Hissing through his teeth, he marches across to the hidden exit at the far end of the chamber.
A click, the concealed door opens and he vanishes inside.
Re-emerging a minute later. “There’re drag marks where the floor turns to earth. You want to follow them?”
“I don’t think I do. I’m not sure I want to be responsible for whatever happens to Finchby. Besides, I have more immediate things to do.”
“Such as?”
“I have a hard drive to clean up before I deliver it to the police.”
Michael scratches at forty-eight-hour stubble. “I suspect Finchby may not be our problem anymore.”
“I suspect you’re right. Klempner wanted to question him some more. I doubt he’ll survive the experience.”
“And Klempner?”
“He'll be back.”
“You think?”
“Mitch.”
*****
The following evening, the front door opens and Klempner breezes in as if he had not a care in the world.
“James, Michael, sorry to leave you so precipitously. I'm sure you understand why.”
He’s changed, wearing fresh clothes which look new and fit him well; trousers, a roll-top sweater, jacket and shoes. And he carries a pair of bags, offering one to me.
“Yours. Thank you for the loan. I had them laundered of course.”
“Finchby?” I ask, cautiously.
“... Will trouble you no more.” His gaze is direct. “Or for that matter, anyone else.”
you do
He regards me from under his
“Yes.”
After he’d told me what I
in the
want what’s left of him found.” His tone turns savage. “I want
his smile sunny. “If someone has a quarrel with
This is Klempner…
to some of the people
you stopped at
didn't want Jenny or Mitch reading something like that in the
of the hall: Richard, watching,
“And how
would say. He blistered
have given you this before, but we were rather busy. It’s Finchby’s half of the money. I think most of it’s there, minus a… um… finder’s fee to Hickman. I
bag. “I assumed I’d never see that
Klempner cocks his head. “You know what they say about
*****
Klempner
and Michael head upstairs. They want to see
And the baby…
Of course…
To see his
I
stands, half-decorated. Close by, a cardboard box
make up the fire.
logs over it, building it high. A good burn will heat the stonework
and chatter drifts. I can pick out Jenny’s
off her
much deeper tones rumble down too and occasionally the nurse trots
to the fire,
fizz of activity, the buzz of excitement
Now what?
Perhaps I should go?
them play
should be
turn to stand over the fire, leaning with both hands on the mantle, staring down into the flames and where
The voice is soft,
“Mitch, is Jenny alright? And the
her sleep and she’s having a bath, cleaning herself up properly now. They’ve put Cara in an incubator,
“An incubator? Here?”
whisked away to a clinic or hospital, but unless it’s an emergency…”
About Hot Revenge Box Set 2 - Chapter 20
Hot Revenge Box Set 2 is the best current series of the author Simone Leigh. With the below Chapter 20 content will make us lost in the world of love and hatred interchangeably, despite all the tricks to achieve the goal without any concern for the other half, and then regret. late. Please read chapter Chapter 20 and update the next chapters of this series at novelebook.com