The Sisterhood by John Nicholl

Author:John Nicholl
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2020-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

19

Sue left the hotel shortly after dark, creeping through reception unseen and hurrying out into the quiet street just as the rain began to fall. She sheltered in a doorway, pressing herself against a wall, using Garvey’s mobile to contact a local cab firm she’d used once before in very different circumstances. 1234, really? Couldn’t the muscle-bound fool come up with a more original passcode? It seemed not. The slug was an idiot. A destructive moron who was better off dead.

She waited, wrapped in her coat, buttons unfastened, wig and glasses back on, shivering with cold until a red Vauxhall taxi cab eventually pulled up opposite her about ten minutes later. Sue sat in the back with her collar up and her head down.

‘I want you to drop me off at the railway station, rear entrance, and stick to the back streets whenever you can. I don’t mind paying a bit over the odds if we can avoid as many cameras as possible.’

Sue looked away when the driver swivelled in his seat to face her. ‘You’re not in trouble with the law, are you, love? It’s more than my licence is worth to help a criminal. They’re very strict on that sort of thing.’

She took two crisp twenty-pound notes from her purse and handed them to him with pleading eyes. ‘Just leave the meter off, get me to the station no questions asked, and there’s another twenty quid in it for you when we get there. That’s sixty quid for a ten-minute ride. And then you never see me again. What’s not to like? It seems like a good deal to me.’

‘Have you been crying, love?’

‘Just get me there, please. I’m just about holding it together.’

He started the engine without another word and began driving.

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