Hot Revenge Box Set 4

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.

whispers above me, riffling the petals on a vase of lilies and wafting honeyed

carpet still lies in vacuumed stripes, with only my own footprints

Really?

I press my foot down by one of the

left it, outside on the balcony, folded up on the table, alongside my breakfast tray. And the balcony

my feet silently, I cross the floor, turn the handle of the bedroom door. With a subdued click, it

the carpet in perfect dark-light stripes… the bed made, and beside the pillows, a

do they do

coffee kit, biscuits, a small box of foil-wrapped chocolates,

length, I flick open first one wardrobe door,

and palm trees might be an offence to good taste, I don’t

Only one place left…

drawn to the door of the

second… ear cocked… gun at the ready…

mixed warbles and screeches of birds, the hiss of cicadas, splashing pools

I kick the door and

around the bath where I’ve washed away the

alarms are

What triggered it?

metallic and my heart plays percussion against my

Calm down…

Breathe…

Think…

What happened?

was barely in the

Outside then…

Something in the corridor…

I dart a look