Betrayal by Simon King

Author:Simon King [King, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

1.

It was Hal that saved me from making the biggest mistake of my life. I didn’t sleep the entire night and was ready to kill Frank by the time the unit was unlocked the next morning. It was my luck that Hal’s cell was unlocked before mine, waiting for the screws to unlock my door before making a beeline for me.

We met just as I walked through my door, the unit’s common area still relatively empty.

“Back in your cell,” he hissed as I walked out. I went to object, to push him aside and march on up to Frank’s cell, but Hal punched me in the stomach, the wind knocked out of my lungs before I knew what was happening. Hal ceased the opportunity and pushed my wheezing corpse back into my cell and closed the door behind us. “You wanna get killed, dickhead?”

2.

To his credit, he was right. I don’t know whether he knew just how right he was considering the weapon I had delivered to Frank the previous night. It would take a really stupid man to attack someone they knew to possess a handgun and I wasn’t about to get shot by that.

It took all of my conscious will to calm myself enough to sit down. Hal looked concerned for me; genuine concern I could feel. There was a quiet tap on my door and when I looked up, saw Jack poking his head in. He looked just as anxious as Hal and I suddenly realized they knew.

“How long have you guys known?” I asked, finally calm enough to suck good clean air into my lungs again. I felt a little woozy and hoped I wasn’t showing it to these 2.

“Saw it in the paper a couple of days ago,” Jack said, Hal nodding in agreeance. They exchanged a look that reminded me of Frank and Danny that day back before Nick’s daughter.

“What are you guys not telling me?” I asked. I could see the pair of them shift in their seats, the information they held weighing heavily on their minds. “Jack?” I asked, knowing he would be the weakest.

“Word is, it was Razzie,” Hal said as Jack opened his mouth to speak. I turned to him, completely dumbstruck. “I heard Frank sent Razzie after your dad to make up for stealing from him. I don’t know why, though. I’m sorry, Dylan.”

The name hit me hard. Razzie was a friend and a close one at that. Not as close as Jack but he was one of us. To find out that he’d betrayed me cut deep. The emotions surrounding the whole thing were confusing to say the least. It was betrayal, loss, anger and fear all mixed into a giant drink bottle and I was forced to drink it all in one giant gulp.

“Why the fuck would he do it?” I said, walking to the window and staring out at the stream of traffic out on the footpath. Crooks and officers were heading to appointments, work or to the gym.

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