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.
above me, riffling the petals on a vase of lilies
still lies in vacuumed stripes, with only my
Really?
my foot down by one
newspaper lies where I left it, outside on the balcony, folded up on the table, alongside my breakfast
floor, turn the handle of the bedroom door. With a subdued click, it swings
dark-light stripes… the bed made, and beside the pillows, a
they do
tea and coffee kit, biscuits, a small box of
hand, with the other, at arm’s length, I flick
with pineapples and palm trees might be an offence to good taste, I don’t feel
Only one place left…
I’m drawn to the door of the
for a long second… ear cocked… gun at the ready…
more than the mixed warbles and screeches of birds, the hiss of cicadas,
door and it bangs open, bouncing on its
than a tidemark around the bath where I’ve washed away the sweat of the
alarms are
What triggered it?
mouth tastes metallic and my
Calm down…
Breathe…
Think…
What happened?
barely in the
Outside then…
Something in the corridor…
the ceiling, I dart a look outside. The corridor is
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