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.

riffling the petals on a vase of lilies and wafting honeyed air

with only my own footprints lightly in the

Really?

press my foot down by one

left it, outside on the balcony, folded up on the table, alongside my breakfast tray. And the balcony is small, with nowhere for an

cross the floor, turn the handle of the bedroom door. With a

stripes… the bed made, and beside the pillows, a

they

biscuits, a

hand, with the other, at arm’s length,

garishly printed with pineapples and palm trees might be an offence

Only one place left…

drawn to the door of

cocked… gun at the

than the mixed warbles and screeches of

kick the door

a tidemark around the bath where I’ve washed away the sweat of the day

my alarms are

What triggered it?

mouth tastes metallic and my heart plays percussion against my

Calm down…

Breathe…

Think…

What happened?

barely

Outside then…

Something in the corridor…

the gun-barrel at the ceiling, I dart a look outside. The

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