Savage Lovers: The Caraksay Brotherhood. Book 4 by Ashe Barker

Author:Ashe Barker [Barker, Ashe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ashe Barker Books
Published: 2023-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

Tony commandeered one of our helicopters, and the other is in use for the school run, so I have to scrounge a ride on a motor launch, then drive from Oban. The journey back to Caernbro Ghyll takes a few hours. It’s dusk by the time I crunch to a halt on the gravel in front of the mansion.

Once inside, I’m tempted to go straight up to see Ruth, but I detour to the kitchen for a beer first. I find Rome by the fridge, on the same mission.

“Hey,” he greets me. “Want one?”

I accept the can and snap it open. “You found the girl, then.” I’ve been receiving the reports all day so I’m aware of what happened, and the state Jenna Delaney was in when they found her.

Rome nods. “Nasty business. She’s lucky to be alive. I don’t think she would have been if it had taken us much longer.”

“Tony stayed at the hospital, I gather.”

He nods. “Should be back here tomorrow, though. Megan says Jenna’s out of danger but needs bed rest and pampering.:

I chuckle. “Difficult to imagine Tony as a nursemaid.”

“Boss, you should have seen him. That’s a man in love if ever I saw one.”

Tell me about it.

“Do we have any idea what it was about? Who did it?”

“We found her belongings in a bag of rubbish linked to some loan shark by the looks of it. Felix Fuller.”

I frown. I know that name. “Weaselly little scrote. Has an office out towards Dumbarton as I recall.”

Rome’s head swivels towards me. “You know him?”

“I know of him. Not a man we’d do business with. He’s a small-time operator but nasty with it. As well as fleecing poor sods out of their cash he runs a couple of dozen girls. Street workers, mostly. Takes what they earn in exchange for a few grams of product just to keep them interested and dependent, and lets them grab a bit of floorspace in one of his doss-houses when they’re not out working or scoring.”

“He wasn’t at his office,” Rome tells me. “That’s where we found Jenna.”

I search my brain for what I know of Felix Fuller. He’s greedy and ruthless, brutal if he feels like it. “He has a flat in Scotstoun, one of those high-rise places.“ I check my watch. “But at this time he’ll most likely be at Top Pocket.”

“The snooker club?”

“The same. I think he owns a share of it, does a lot of his business there.”

“Right. I need to go and pick him up. Tony wants a word.”

“I bet he does.” I put my beer down. “Come on, then.”

He grins at me. “Let’s go and have ourselves a little rumble.”

This expedition is just what I need to help clear my head and release the tension that’s been brewing all day. I need to break something. Felix Fuller will do.

On the way out, we pass the door to the drawing room. I pop my head round to find about a dozen of our soldiers watching American football on the television.

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