The Big O (A Screwball Noir) by Burke Declan

Author:Burke, Declan [Burke, Declan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-03-06T05:00:00+00:00

Ray

Ray waited while Karen tugged the helmet off, shook out her hair. Looking fresh, just out of the shower, skin still glowing. Staring at Ray now like she was waiting for an apology, some explanation. Except Ray was the one who’d been slapped, bawled out, threatened with cops.

So he kept it cool, the way Karen was playing it, still straddling the dirt-bike, the high mudguards a fetching pink. Ray’d never seen a motorcycle before had pink mudguards.

‘Now you’re following me?’ she said.

‘Woah.’ Ray did a mock double-take. ‘You’re the one pulled up on me.’

‘Enough, Ray,’ she said quietly. ‘What’re you doing here?’

Ray fingered the plaster-strip on his cheek. ‘Thought I’d better get a tetanus shot, just to be on the safe side.’

‘Sorry, we’re not open Saturdays. And even if we were, we don’t do tetanus shots.’

Ray, not kidding this time, did another double-take. ‘Yeah? This is where you work? For the doc?’

‘Frank the Skank, sure. You know him, right? All the pervs hanging out together in back-street bordellos.’

‘Jesus, Karen, relax. All I’m looking for is ––’

‘I heard. Tetanus. Like I said, we’re closed.’

Ray struggling to get a handle on things: Karen working for the guy who wants his ex-wife snatched, except the ex-wife’s dropping Karen home late on Friday nights….

Now, watching Karen haul the dirt-bike up onto its stand, not straining, just using this neat little technique she had, all wrist and forearm, Ray said: ‘You mind if I ask you something?’

Karen, sullen, not even meeting his eye, said: ‘What?’

And then she gasped, eyes blossoming wide; folded over, dropping to her knees, right there in the street.

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