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?”
I ran the show. I didn't make personal collections. I
really don't know why I was in
up your life, but if you imagine it was from
speaks slowly… Reluctantly… “My parents sold me
in me tightens.
never there. And when he was, he was usually drunk. If he came home, we'd all hide or go
“We?”
lips. The eyes slit further. “Are you really interested in this? Or is this
I’d like to hear
away.
childhood? Tell me. I’ll match
screws
I’ll show you mine if you
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
Christ…
My belly tightens…
do understand how that makes you feel. For many years, I believed my own mother had abandoned
turns liquid eyes to me. “But she
was small. But, at the time, I didn't
is dull. “Who
“My father.”
“And
end, I killed
is
Karma. What goes
eyes me.
say. Here
Time to move on…
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