Hot Revenge Box Set 4

Chapter 35

Klempner

A dozen of them…

Or more.

I know where to find at least one of Juliana’s heavies. So I might as well reduce the numbers a bit…

Improve the odds.

And oddly, I find I have another motive.

The things we learn about ourselves…

I realise that the idea of coercing the old man’s hard-earned cash away from him offends me.

That’s new…

…

…

Wonder how much they’ve had off him over the years…?

Why do they call it ‘Protection’?

Call it what it is…

Extorting money with menaces…

as on previous occasions. After all, he wants his clientele

Antonio’s bar gives me what I want: a view

up, right on time. The last time our paths crossed, he made it away with the money and delivered it to Juliana, or

the same routine with Antonio. He does, except that this

face the rigours of the hot day, he makes for the clothes store

Yup…

Same routine…

Same targets…

events that befell his comrade-in-arms, he’s not paying attention to

the

when I followed him on the first occasion. I follow at a discreet distance on the other side of the

down an alley: a

That will do nicely…

or to

maybe to peel ten per cent

shufti around

and not much more. Wonder Boy’s standing just beyond the cans with his back to me, recycling

five second, soft-shoe’d sprint and he doesn’t even hear me until I’m almost on top of him. When he does register I’m there,

pauses, head cocked, face screwed up,

close up, his pupils are huge,

Does he ever learn?

Too late now…

dawns across dull features. Abruptly, he grins, jabbing vee’d fingers towards his eyes, then back

hand, then across his throat. He drops with barely

he stills. Slit throats are a messy business and it’s broad daylight. I don’t want to have to exit the alley covered

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