Hot Revenge Box Set 4
Chapter 27
Klempner
Damn phone…
What’s wrong with the fucking thing?
I tap in again. Nothing happens.
I’m several floors up, heading back for my hotel room. The signal should be strong up here.
I inspect the screen…
Yes… plenty of signal…
Better contact Dakho… Get him to supply a new one…
A more reliable model this time…
Arriving at my room door…
… A brief shufti along the corridor…
… I’m alone. A quick inspection that my slicked-on hair is still in place…
… It is… a faint dark line against the white paint, which peels away, then drops to the floor as I slide the card into the lock and push the door open…
I toss the useless phone onto my bed then start to shrug off my jacket…
… and in mid-movement, I stall.
My spine prickles and without meaning to, I’m standing stock-still, Glock in hand, staring around the apartment.
What’s wrong?
Working on automatic, my hand follows my eye, weapon aimed, but…
I don’t see anything.
Nothing has moved.
Nothing has changed.
on a vase of lilies and wafting
still lies in vacuumed stripes, with
Really?
foot down by one of the existing footprints: a perfect
it, outside on the balcony, folded up on the table, alongside my
turn the handle of the bedroom door.
beside the pillows, a pair of bath-towels folded, for some inexplicable reason, into the
do they
and coffee kit, biscuits, a small box of foil-wrapped chocolates, a comments
hand, with the other, at arm’s length, I flick open first one
but my own clothes. And while shirts garishly printed with pineapples and palm trees might
Only one place left…
drawn to the
second… ear cocked… gun at
mixed warbles and screeches of birds, the hiss
door and it bangs open, bouncing on
than a tidemark around the bath where I’ve washed away the sweat of the
alarms are
What triggered it?
my heart plays percussion against
Calm down…
Breathe…
Think…
What happened?
was barely in
Outside then…
Something in the corridor…
to aim the gun-barrel at the ceiling, I dart a look outside.
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