Coconuts and Wonderbras by Lynda Renham

Author:Lynda Renham
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780957137226
Publisher: Unknown Publisher
Published: 2012-08-14T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

The safe house is magnificent. I want to ask how Alex knows about this place but decide to ask him some other time. We drive down a bumpy dirt track which runs between two rice fields and into a driveway concealed on either side by high bushes. As we turn the bend the house comes into view and I gasp. It looks similar to the pagodas I had seen in the countryside. In the dim lighting from the house I can make out several columns which support a wide veranda. Two comfortable looking wicker chairs sit invitingly. We drive to the back of the house. I see what looks like an allotment where I can make out neat rows of plants and bushes in the light of the silvery moon. Behind the allotment is a wood which casts ghostly shadows over the ground. To think I cannot tell anyone about this. It is just the sort of annoying thing Alex Bryant would do. We are in the middle of nowhere. The house has three bathrooms, six bedrooms, an enormous lounge and an equally enormous kitchen. There is also a small cosy sitting room which houses a music player, a laptop and an assortment of board games. The only thing lacking is air conditioning. Alex-I-have-everything-under-control-Bryant has instructed all of us to turn our mobile phones off and give him the batteries. I am very reluctant to do this and stubbornly stand my ground. The two men, whose names I learn are Lucky and Mr Navy, admit they were following orders by the country’s Governor, Kuma Pong, and hand their phones over without protest. They are terrified of Pong and his henchmen and seem very agreeable about helping Alex. They are safe for as long as Pong thinks Alex and I are kept under lock and key by the gentle Lucky and Mr Navy. This is all beyond me. I’m a simple publishing agent. I don’t go to safe houses and hand over my phone. I don’t go to countries that are in the middle of political uprisings. I can barely conduct a simple romance, and it is becoming very annoying to find that everything Alex says is right. It seems that Kuma Pong, stinker by name and stinker by nature, has been terrorising the country for some time with his protection racket.

‘He threatened destroy my house if I not kidnap you and lady,’ Lucky fumes.

‘He has the police under his thumb too. This is why the people are rebelling. They’ve had enough,’ Alex tells me.

‘But why is he after you?’ I ask while inspecting the kitchen cupboards.

‘I’ve exposed him and he’s scared I’ll say too much about him on television,’ he explains. ‘So, he sends someone to kidnap us. And will presumably dispose of us when the time is right.’

I shiver. Does he have to make us sound like a black dustbin bag?

‘This is all very well but I have a life to get back to and people who will be worried about me.

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