Sweet Razor Cut (Harry Bauer Book 11) by Blake Banner

Author:Blake Banner [Banner, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Right House
Published: 2022-02-20T16:00:00+00:00

Twelve

I went up to my study while she prepared lunch, and called Benini. Cleft Pallet handed me over to his boss with a, “Hey Boh, I’foyou.” A second later his boss said, “Benini,” like it was an answer to a question I hadn’t asked.

“I have four kilos of pure, premium-grade product for you. That’s eight and a half pounds. You want it?”

“Of course I want it.”

“OK, tomorrow morning I’ll send you an address. You come in one car. I see more than one car the deal is off and there will be consequences. I will be alone. You can bring your boys, but no more than four. You bring your laptop and you make the transfer so I can see it. When the money appears in Mr. Shir’s account you get the product. Is that clear?”

“It’s clear. But four kilos of product does not add up to the four million bucks I am paying over.”

He’d slipped back again. I sighed. “Again? You are getting over a ton of product, Benini. And with the shit that’s going down in Afghanistan you’d better get your hands on it fast, because prices are going to go through the roof when the Taliban start shooting all the farmers. Wise up!”

“OK, OK…” Like he’d heard it all before. “I’ll be there.”

I hung up and made my way back downstairs where Angel had set the table in the kitchen and was dishing up scrambled eggs and mushrooms. I pulled out a chair and sat.

“Looks good.”

She didn’t answer. She pulled out the chair opposite and said, “You sound like an automaton.”

I glanced at her. She looked mad. She’d obviously been thinking while I was upstairs. A dim voice in my head told me she had expected more when I got home. Before I could say anything, she went on, “You keep saying we are going to talk. I’m beginning to feel like a damned fool, hanging around, locked in, waiting for you to have a moment to discuss how I feel. Because you,” she waved her right hand at me, “apparently don’t feel! And I promised myself I was not going to do this!”

“Stop.”

She did and after a moment I sighed and laid down my knife and fork.

“I don’t expect you to understand, Angel, but this is a lot more difficult for me than it seems.”

“I don’t want to force you into anything, Harry! It’s just, what happened happened. I don’t normally sleep with guys I have just met, but this was different and then you seemed to feel something. The normal thing would have been for us to talk, spend the day together, find out some more about each other. But the next morning you were like this hunk of ice. This iceberg! All your emotions seemed to have frozen. And you walked out and left me alone, ordering me to ‘stay put.’ Before you were a really nice guy, and afterwards you were this robot.”

“I’m sorry.”

“See? There you go again. All the feeling of pack ice, only harder to melt.

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