The Yellow Glass by Claire Ingrams

Author:Claire Ingrams [Ingrams, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Cozy, Crime, Espionage, Fiction, Humour, Mystery, Politics, Spies, Suspense, Thriller
Amazon: B00OS767US
Published: 2014-10-20T23:00:00+00:00

16. On Board the Humber

Nobody could sleep through an animal the size of Pablo purring and flexing his claws on their chest. Pablo’s purrs sounded like his vocal chords had got rusted and he was about to vomit them up. And his breath stank of hot rubbish bins. It was that great to see him.

“Hey, boy! What’re you doing here?”

He rubbed his broad, orange face against mine, turned round and flopped down, right at the point where my ribs ended and my intestines began.

“Oomph!”

“Looks painful,” said a voice. “In fact, it all looks exceedingly painful.”

I angled my head around the mass of ginger fur and found I was staring into the chilly eyes of Rosa’s uncle, the spy. Another face popped up behind his shoulder; a dead-pan Chinese, or possibly Malay, lad wearing a duffle coat.

“What the hell . . ?”

“ . . are we doing here? I might ask the same thing of you, Magnus Arkonnen.”

“I . . .” Then I noticed the metal walls and metal floor: metal everywhere, even the metal springs of a metal bed inches above my head. This wasn’t hospital.

“I don’t know. What am I doing here? What’s going on?”

Rosa’s uncle crouched down by the side of my pillow wearing his menacing face.

“Well, it looks like you’ve been gathered into the fold, Magnus. Tea and cake and a first aid box; all mod-cons provided. I’d suggest that somebody wants you to recuperate from whatever you’ve been through, somebody very close to home, indeed. Your uncle, say.”

“My uncle? What are you talking about, man?” The mists were beginning to clear a fraction and I remembered something. “I was abducted from hospital . . that was it! A nurse doped me with chloroform and ran off with me! I’ve been kidnapped!”

My breath began coming in fits and starts and a cold sweat tingled on my upper lip.

“Now stop that. No need to get yourself into a lather.”

“I’ve been in a car crash and got two broken arms and two broken legs and now I’ve been kidnapped, man!”

I’d started to make whooping noises between words and even the cat panicked and leapt off my chest.

“I said, calm down. It’s all in the family, don’t you see?”

I didn’t see anything - hadn’t seen anything for days - except that I’d a cracking headache and had turned into this man who wore his nerves on the outside, like his coat.

“Mr Upshott,” the lad tapped on the spy’s shoulder. “Excuse me, Mr Upshott.”

“Not now, Tamang. This is rather interesting.”

“Mr Upshott, I really think you should . .”

“Why the abduction, I ask myself? They wanted him out of hospital because we’d have found him and be questioning him any minute, that’s a given, but . . why the abduction without his consent?”

“We are moving!” The lad shouted.

“Christ, we’re not are we? Up on deck. No time to lose. Jump in and swim if you have to.”

I heard them go, their footsteps clattering against the metal floor. Odd words pierced the red mist of panic.

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