Gardens of the Queen by Nicholas Harvey

Author:Nicholas Harvey [Harvey, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781082763458
Published: 2019-07-31T22:00:00+00:00

Anatoly turned to the kid who now looked a little terrified trapped in the car with these two strange men.

“I didn’t know it was your bike when I borrowed it, okay? We can sort this out, just calm down and we’ll take you to the bike.”

“Alright, but we gotta be quick about it, my boat’s waiting on me now,” Billy replied agitatedly, looking around out the window and wondering where they were going.

Anatoly turned back to the front and switched to Russian. “I’ve got no idea where I ditched the thing, all these mangroves lining the roads look the same to me.”

Mikhail kept driving. “What part of the ‘don’t draw attention’ order did you not understand?”

Anatoly stammered back. “The Bodden kid was taking off, I needed something quick and the bike was right there, I didn’t have a choice.”

Mikhail looked at him this time. “You always have choices. You made a bad one and now we have a distraction.”

Mikhail turned down a narrow road with no homes around and pulled over in a small clearing between some bushes.

“It’s here,” he said to Billy in English, “I’ll show you.”

All three got out although Anatoly had no idea what was about to happen, this certainly wasn’t where he had dumped the bicycle.

Mikhail met Billy around the back of the car and strode up intimidatingly close to him. “How much did your bicycle cost?”

“What?” Billy struggled to reply, realising his bike probably wasn’t here after all.

“Simple question, how much did you pay for your bike my associate borrowed?” Mikhail stared him down.

“Uhhh… couple of hundred CI from a mate who was leaving the island, and I gave him some fins too,” Billy managed.

“The fins, how much were they worth?” the Russian continued in his flat tone.

Billy was looking around, trying to figure out a place to run, getting more nervous by the second. “Fuck, I don’t know, twenty bucks?”

Mikhail reached into his back pocket and Billy cringed, convinced this weird eastern European guy was about to shoot him. Mikhail pulled three hundred Cayman Island dollars from the wallet he took from his back pocket and handed them to Billy.

“That covers your bicycle and some inconvenience.”

Billy relaxed and took the cash, happy he was not being shot and pleased with himself for lying about what he’d paid for the old bike.

“Do you plan on telling anyone about this?” Mikhail asked in the same tone.

Billy paused, nervous again. He had figured this was over and he was getting a ride back to the dock. “Uh, no, I guess not?”

He sensed the man move but it happened so fast he had no idea what was going on except he had a pain in his midriff and he couldn’t breathe at all. Billy’s knees buckled instantly and he dropped like a dead weight to the ground wheezing and gasping for air, the man leaning over him.

“Still guessing about telling people or are you sure now?”

Billy couldn’t make words but he shook his head and waved his hand,

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