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,
It’s just a rat…
scratching. And a
you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back
Who said that?
Nietzsche?
Depressing bastard…
I come equipped with
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know what Stockholm syndrome
eyes. She takes something from her lunchbox, unwrapping
for a psychological condition where, in a kidnap or
saying you're getting attached to
me...” Her head tilts. She pretending mockery, but I have her attention. “… But there's a reverse condition. It's called
“So?”
I your
think you’re my friend?” The napkin produces a brigadeiro. A flake of chocolate cracks off the small round cake, dropping back into the napkin and she dabs it up with a fingertip then
you
mouth hanging
rot,
you. I assume you do want me to feed you? We can always change
leave me a bag of potatoes and come once a week. Or even,
your only friend, Sola? Is
swings her head, giggling. “So,
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 of my life.
her seat, arches
I'm not claiming to have changed. Who ever really changes?” I raise my
“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, scarlet
on her heel, she stalks
Launching myself at the fallen food, ignoring the jab of pain in my ankle as the chain snaps taut, I snatch up the discarded meal from the filthy concrete, scrabbling to grab broken fragments of meat in one hand, a cake with
blind, my eyes adjust to the green blink of the camera.
from the corner. And I have half of a fruit
not eaten anything like
For how long?
sense of time
had
of empanada, then another, I ram the
and
scavenged meal, I barf it up, where it plops in a saliva-coated mess onto
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