Hot Revenge Box Set 4
Chapter 45
Klempner
“Here…” Juliana places something in the ground… a flat something… “I'm not giving you a cushion, but you can have that.”
On the end of her shoe, she toes it toward me and across the white line. A fragment of paint breaks from the edge of the line.
Stiff-jointed, I stand. It’s not easy. Every movement scrapes flesh and bone against the concrete and I resist the urge to simply roll forward and crawl towards whatever-it-is.
So, I stand: unravelling myself: piece by piece, joint-by-joint, unfolding my body until I’m upright. Then I take the three or four steps to what has become the edge of my world.
Stooping with exaggerated care for my stiff spine, I examine her flat-packed offering. “A cardboard box?”
“It'll get your ass off the concrete.”
“In this damp, It won't last long.”
She shrugs. “Then, I might give you another. If you behave yourself.”
“You mean if I grovel and entertain you.”
She gives me a hyena grin. “That’s the spirit.”
*****
“Can I ask you something?”
Her eyes narrow. “You can ask.”
“How did you come to be in my hands in the first place? Most of the kids were shipped in from the third world or Eastern Europe. How did you come to be in Blessingmoors?”
Her jaw drops. “You don't know?”
make personal
really don't know
life, but if you imagine it was from some
speaks slowly… Reluctantly… “My parents sold
me tightens.
never there. And when he was, he was usually drunk. If he came home, we'd all hide or
“We?”
eyes slit further. “Are you really interested in this? Or
interested. I’d like to hear
away.
Tell me. I’ll
screws up,
her.“ I’ll show you mine if
said we were going out, just her and me… That she was taking me for a special treat. She made me wear my best dress. My older sister's actually. And she took me to meet a man. He gave her money…” She gulps, looking away… “She said I was
Christ…
My belly tightens…
I do understand
eyes to me. “But she
murdered when I was small. But, at the time, I didn't
dull. “Who
“My father.”
eyes widen. “And what happened to
end, I
laugh is bleak.
What goes around comes
in her chair’ eyes me. “And so here we
you say.
Time to move on…
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