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 and
still lies in vacuumed stripes, with only my own footprints
Really?
one of the existing
where I left it, outside on the balcony, folded up on the table, alongside my breakfast tray. And the balcony is small, with nowhere for an intruder to
feet silently, I cross the floor, turn the handle
in perfect dark-light stripes… the bed made, and beside the pillows, a pair of bath-towels folded, for
do they
side-table, the usual tea and coffee kit, biscuits,
hand, with the other, at arm’s length,
but my own clothes. And while shirts garishly printed with pineapples and palm trees might be an offence to good taste, I don’t feel threatened by
Only one place left…
drawn to the door of
long second… ear cocked… gun
of birds, the hiss
kick the door and
tidemark around the bath where I’ve washed away the sweat of the day
alarms are
What triggered it?
and my heart
Calm down…
Breathe…
Think…
What happened?
barely in
Outside then…
Something in the corridor…
aim the gun-barrel at the ceiling, I dart a look
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