Hit and Done by Andy Maslen

Author:Andy Maslen [Maslen, Andy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Calibre
Published: 2017-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

36

Close Shave

RONNIE flicked his wrist and Stella gasped at the sharp flare of pain. She felt the blood dribbling down across her top lip. Instinctively, she put her tongue out to catch the flow. Salt. Iron. Copper.

And behind her back, the sound masked by her cough, she pressed the button to open her own blade.

“You better tell us what we want to know,” Ronnie said. “Compared to Marilyn, I’m the good cop.”

Other Stella issued an instruction that only Stella could hear.

Keep him happy, babe. Make something up. Just for a minute or two.

Stella inhaled. Fixed Ronnie, then Marilyn, with a stare that she hoped would look penitent.

“Collier sent me to Marbella. The whole thing was a setup. To get you two back in England. He’s assembled a snatch team. He’s going to track you down and take you off the street.”

“I knew it!” Marilyn cried.

Ronnie’s questions came like bullets.

“And the Glock? Your story about your kid? The death squads?”

“Oh, the death squads are real enough. But we cooked up the other business between us. He thought an old school villain like you would go for it. I’m single, Ronnie. There never was a kid.”

Freddie had been as meticulous about keeping his blades sharp as he had about everything else in his house, from the neatly made bed to the squared-up paperbacks on the nightstand. The flick-knife cut through Stella’s bindings as if they were ribbons round a child’s Christmas present. With a small jerk, the last of the thin ropes parted.

Stella readied herself.

So did Other Stella.

“Changed my mind, Stel. I’ll take it from here.”

Stella felt the familiar nauseating lurch in the pit of her stomach. It had happened when she’d butchered the CPS lawyer Debra Fieldsend. When she’d thrown Charlie Howarth QC to his death several storeys down onto York stone flagstones. And again when she’d shot Tamit Ferenczy on the roof of his own club. The violence of Other Stella’s takeover sent Stella shooting backwards out of her own body into a corner of the snug, where she remained trapped, a passive witness to what came next.

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