Hot Revenge Box Set 4
Chapter 52
Klempner
What's the obsession with potatoes?
I called her Potato Face when she was a kid.
What does she look like now?
Jenny was no looker at that age…
… But she matured. Bloomed.
Juliana... Never the same twice.
I scratch at my beard. I’ve never liked facial hair in hot climates, but I don’t have a choice right now. Even so, the flourishing colony of lice that has stowed aboard adds an extra edge of irritation.
Lice…
Where the fuck did they come from?
Can rat lice live on humans?
Having a fucking good go at it…
I catch one, squeezing the revolting thing between my fingernails. It bursts with a Pop!
Only another 999 to go…
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The boredom’s the worst. Endless hours. Endless days and nights. I’ve no idea how long.
The only breaks in the monotony are Juliana’s visits: just long enough to sit, eat something at me, toss a potato at me.
No, not Juliana: Solana.
Why's she so obsessed with the name?
How many names have I used over the years? Worn like a suit of clothes to be discarded when the weather changes and something different is needed.
I’ve never been defined by my name.
But she sees it differently…
Something skritches and I jerk a look sidelong
It’s a rat…
Just a rat…
faced down gunmen, soldiers,
It’s just a rat…
the dark openings, more scratching. And a nose
an abyss, the abyss will
Who said that?
Nietzsche?
Depressing bastard…
abyss comes equipped with teeth and whiskers. I come equipped with fists
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do you know what Stockholm syndrome
flickers over her eyes. She takes something from her lunchbox, unwrapping one of her usual dainties from
condition where, in a kidnap
“You saying you're getting attached
She pretending mockery, but I have her attention. “… But there's a reverse condition. It's called Lima syndrome, where the captor comes to empathise
“So?”
your only friend,
my friend?” The napkin produces a brigadeiro. A flake of chocolate cracks off the small round cake, dropping
do you
her chewing, mouth hanging a little open.
you wanted was to watch me rot,
to feed you. I assume you do want me to feed you?
leave me a bag of potatoes and come once a week. Or even, once a month. But, so far as I
not speaking, simply regarding me. I continue. “Am I your only friend, Sola? Is that it? You've murdered everyone else that might get close to
swings her head, giggling. “So,
The daughter you had slated as a sex-slave when she was a kid? That middle-aged hooker? You've not changed, Larry. I can see right through you. The same heartless bastard that shipped me out to dig up potatoes for the rest
arms, sits back in her seat, arches her brows. “I am making
“Did I say otherwise? I'm not claiming to have changed. Who ever really changes?” I raise my gaze
“Solana…” she hisses.
mouth working, she says no more. Instead, she stands, the lunchbox tumbling from her lap. The contents spill and scatter over the rancid concrete, some of it dropping just this side of that painted line, now less than white. Even under the heavy make-up, her colour has changed. White-faced, white-lipped,
her heel, she stalks
snatch up the discarded
blind, my eyes adjust to the green blink of the camera. It hardly matters. My
taken from the corner.
eaten anything like
For how long?
sense of time is out
had
in a mouthful of empanada, then another, I ram the food into my
Too soon. Half-chewed pulp goes down the wrong way and suddenly I’m no longer eating, but coughing
I barf it up, where it
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