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?”
show. I didn't make personal collections. I had people on the ground for
floundering. “You really don't know why I
“Juliana, I may have fucked up your life, but if you imagine it was
“My parents sold me
in me tightens.
apparently off-hand. “Well, in fact, my mother. My father was never there. And when he was, he was usually drunk. If he
“We?”
The eyes slit further. “Are you
I’d like to hear
looks away. “It’s
childhood? Tell me.
screws up,
fake a smile, wink at her.“ I’ll show you mine if you show me
my mother 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 to go with him. She said he'd take me to my new home. It would be a kind of holiday…” Her voice
Christ…
My belly tightens…
“For what it is worth to you, Juliana, I do understand how that makes you feel. For many years, I believed
eyes to me.
She was murdered when I was small.
is dull. “Who
“My father.”
eyes widen. “And what
end, I killed
laugh is bleak.
Karma. What goes
chair’ eyes me. “And so here we
say.
Time to move on…
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