Full Circle (The Moonlight Monsters Detective Agency) by Harper Maggie

Author:Harper, Maggie [Harper, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fantasy
Publisher: Thompson, Joyce, MacGowan Publishing Group
Published: 2012-02-29T04:30:00+00:00

‘What the hell were you involved in?’ Tina asked.

‘Oh don’t look at me like that,’ Parker frowned, ‘I’m just a petty crook, right? You shouldn’t be surprised.’

Tina said nothing. She’d never seen him so worked up like this before. It was hard to stay angry now that she knew the real reason behind his reckless behavior.

‘It was nothing serious,’ he continued after a while, ‘we ran a little gambling racket, me and my mate Jimmy – that was his name. Sometimes we moved dodgy goods as a favor for friends but we never got mixed up in any violence or anything. I made a promise about that to someone very important to me, a long, long time ago…’

‘And Draco?’ Tina asked, ‘when did he come into it?’

‘At the end of August last year,’ Parker said, ‘this smooth-talking bastard turns up. He had a proposition for us. I never trusted the scumbag for a second.’

‘What was the proposition?’

‘Draco wanted to take over the London crime scene. Or at least that was his story anyway. He probably took us for a couple of gullible proles who’d believe anything said by a man in suits as fancy as his. He claimed that if we joined forces with him we’d all become millionaires. All we had to was front the cash…’

‘And did you?’

Parker stared at her. ‘Of course not,’ he said, ‘I said no way, not a chance – but Jimmy, he wanted to follow through. I told him to take a few days to think about it and hoped he’d see sense in the meantime. Two days later he turned up dead. He’d been tortured Tina. The stupid bastard must have agreed to meet Draco behind my back. Needless to say, the safe where we kept our funds was completely cleared out too.’

‘Jesus,’ Tina said, ‘and you’ve been following him ever since?’

‘Right up until the day you and Comrade Furball arrested me for practicing detection without a license.’

‘Wow,’ Tina said, ‘you must have been pretty pissed when we stopped you.’

Parker smiled for the first time since they’d left the docks. There wasn’t much humor in it. ‘Nah,’ he said, ‘I’m a pretty patient guy Tina – that’s one thing immortality teaches you – and I knew I’d find him again one way or another, just as soon as I dealt with you two. Even now I know I’m going to get that bastard. And then I’m going to kill him.’

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