Shutter House by Rick Wood

Author:Rick Wood [Wood, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rick Wood Publishing
Published: 2019-03-04T16:00:00+00:00

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This was absolute bloody heaven, and Luke was loving it.

It was like a free-for-all of useless, expensive junk. Numerous holes were appearing in the lining of his bin bag from the pointed ends of all the fancy items he’d grabbed – all of which could get them more than the thirteen thousand they needed.

He bounced to the next room – a bedroom.

Honestly, how many bedrooms does one guy need?

Did he have staff living in them? Relatives? Family?

So far, there had been no photos in any of the bedrooms. In fact, they didn’t look lived in. Every bed had been made and every piece of wooden furniture was coated in a light graze of dust. Luke wondered if the guy ever actually came up here.

Such a waste.

As a child he’d had to share a bedroom with Gray. It wasn’t until Gray left for university that he was actually awarded his own private bedroom, but that’s only because Gray never came back to occupy the other bed.

Yet, here was this guy, with a ridiculous amount of bedrooms.

There were so many people living in poverty that could occupy those beds!

Yet, here they remained… Unoccupied and unused…

Honestly, after witnessing the interior of this ridiculously oversized egocentric mansion, he had no guilt or regret in robbing it, and no sympathy for the man who would arrive home and probably not even notice what was missing.

He had enough. His bag was bursting, and he was sure Amber had enough too.

“Amber!” he shouted out, waiting for a reply.

Nothing.

It was a big floor, she probably didn’t hear him.

He made his way back to the lift, where they had said they would meet, and dumped his bag.

He waited, listening for approaching footsteps or movement or something that would indicate she was done.

How long did it take her?

“Amber!” he tried again.

Her name rebounded back to him multiple times in an empty echo.

He huffed, put his hands in his pocket, and wandered aimlessly from one wall to the other.

He imagined living here.

Imagined a different woman in every room. Endless food from his chef. The biggest and best room for his healthy mum to come visit.

His mates would be damn impressed by this abode.

He huffed. Looked to his watch. It had been almost twenty minutes. He should have arranged a time to meet.

He meandered toward the window, where he stood, looking out upon the driveway below, coated in darkness. The distant street light of the road was hidden between a far row of trees, the outline of the gates barely recognisable from this far away.

So far, no one could hear you scream…

He laughed at the thought. A silly joke, probably not that funny, but it amused him.

He huffed.

Where was that damn girl?

He leant against the window, peering out, gazing at the perfectly-groomed grass – grass that would be perfect with two sets of goal posts. He and his mates would have an awesome kickabout on a pitch like that. Maybe they could put a small changing room between the bushes and the Mercedes.

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