Mine To Possess by Georgia Le Carre & IS Creations

Author:Georgia Le Carre & IS Creations [Le Carre, Georgia & Creations, IS]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781913990695
Publisher: Somebooks
Published: 2023-09-06T16:00:00+00:00

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VIKTOR

Marcus, my right-hand man, calls to say his vacation is going to be a long one as he has been in an accident and broken his leg. I tell him to take as long as he needs to heal. I have bigger problems, much bigger problems to solve.

I spend the next few days focused on the fire. Or rather the aftermath of it. I speak to the police several times, although it feels pointless. I’m certainly not about to tell them anything about Igor – I’ll be dealing with him personally – and they don’t seem to have any leads at all.

A whole fucking building was blown up and people lost their lives, and the police don’t have a fucking clue what happened or why. And then they wonder why people take justice into their own hands.

The officers investigating the fire claim that it’s a priority, but it sure doesn’t feel like it is. If it was, they would have something by now. Whether Igor set the fire personally, or had someone else do it for him, that person didn’t just materialize in the kitchen out of thin air. A surveillance camera must have picked him up or someone had to have seen him coming or going from the restaurant.

None of the staff got a proper look at him. It’s a busy kitchen and people are constantly moving around, so his movements wouldn’t have attracted their attention. All anyone saw was his back after he threw the gas bomb and turned to run – a man dressed all in black.

Not only have the police failed to find any witnesses, they don’t even seem to be trying to find out where the arsonist bought his supplies from either.

They aren’t the real problem though. I accepted long ago that unless a crime goes viral for some reason, the police don’t exactly rush themselves to solve crimes. The real problem is the damned journalists. I get calls from them all day long asking for a comment on this or that. At first, I refused to speak to them at all.

It was Amelia who convinced me I should do an interview with at least the local paper. She said my lack of comments made it look like I didn’t care. I do care. I hate that people died in one of my restaurants and that people got hurt. I wanted to show that and so I did end up doing an interview. Unfortunately, someone brought Amelia up to the stage, and stood her by my side.

There was nothing I could do but carry on.

I talked about how angry and saddened I was about the loss of life, and about how someone must know something, and pleaded with them to come forward.

I made all of the right comments about the investigation, saying the police were doing their best and that they had a few lines of enquiry ongoing and so on – it was all bullshit of course, but it was what they had told me - and the interview made the front page of the local newspaper.

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