Brooklyn Body: The Madison Knox Brooklyn Mystery Series (Book 3) by M.Z. Kelly

Author:M.Z. Kelly [Kelly, M.Z.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kingston Roads Press, LLC
Published: 2018-04-13T16:00:00+00:00

THIRTY-THREE

Christina groaned and brought a hand up to her pounding head. Blood. Lots of blood. She took a moment, trying to clear her head.

She remembered hitting her attacker with the steel bar. He had gone down, and she thought he’d lost consciousness. When she’d bent down to check on him, his hand had suddenly moved, grabbing her wrist. A struggle had followed, and he’d pinned her down before his fists rained down on her.

Her eyes shifted, seeing the round windows on the wall opposite where she lay. She sensed there was movement, a rocking motion. Sky and then water appeared in the windows. The sudden realization hit her. She was on a boat, probably somewhere at sea.

A shadowy figure appeared above her, staring down. “It’s about time you woke up,” the man said.

It took a couple of tries before Christina managed to sit up. “Where...where am I?”

“That’s the least of your concerns.” The man took a seat in a chair across from her. She studied him. He was the same man she’d recognized from Billy Mercer’s funeral. He had cuts and bruises on his face from when she’d hit him. “Who are you?”

He smiled, but Christina realized it wasn’t really a smile. This was a look of predation, like an animal ready to pounce on its quarry.

“Let’s just say I’m someone who has taken an interest in you.”

She still had no idea who he was. Her adversary was probably around forty, with a round shaved head, speckled with flicks of black hair. His eyes were deeply set and dark, with just a glimmer of light in them. They reminded Christina of a scene from a movie she’d once seen, a far away and forbidding land, illuminated as a shadow in the distance.

“Where am I?” she asked.

“On my boat. You’re going to be here for a while, so get used to it.”

“What do you want from me?”

The question hung in the air a long moment as he studied her. She had the impression that he was trying to decide how much to tell her.

“Let’s start with your uncle.”

“My uncle?” How did he know about Uncle Charlie? “He’s dead.”

“Yes, but he loved you very much.”

Christina blinked back her tears. “Yes,” she finally said.

“In fact, he loved you so much that he left you a gift, a trust fund.”

Suddenly, everything that had been happening was clear to her. This was about money, taking all of her money. The money she had inherited had been in a trust, and she hadn’t thought about it in years, except for maybe using it for her children’s education someday...if she ever had children. Christina sat in stony silence, refusing to acknowledge what he’d said, or even look at him.

“By my calculations, the fund is worth almost six hundred thousand by now. I would have taken only half of it, but since you’ve been difficult, the cost of your freedom has doubled. You can think of it as payment.”

She finally cut her eyes to him. “Payment for what?”

“For Billy.

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