Traitor in the House by Caz Finlay

Author:Caz Finlay [Finlay, Caz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780008463328
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Chapter Twenty-One

Grace sat down beside Michael on the sofa and he handed her a glass of Barolo.

‘Tell me about Joey Parnell,’ she said to him as she took a sip of her wine.

Michael frowned. ‘He’s a prick.’

‘Well, I gathered that, but I was hoping for a little more,’ she said with a smile.

‘What do you want to know?’ he asked as he lifted her fingers to his lips and kissed them gently.

‘Who is he? What’s his back story?’

Michael leaned forward and put his glass down on the coffee table before sitting back with a sigh. ‘He ran one of the biggest door firms back in the Nineties. He did security for The Blue Rooms back when Tommy McNulty owned the place. At one time, he ran a good little operation, but he started to get greedy and began stepping on toes that he shouldn’t have. Eventually, he ended up pissing off the wrong people one too many times and his firm was taken over. He was lucky he didn’t end up in the Mersey in a pair of concrete wellies.’

‘Whose toes did he step on?’ she asked.

Michael ran a hand over his beard and leaned towards her before he answered. ‘Tommy,’ he said. ‘Parnell started believing his own hype that he was as hard as nails. Then he and some of his bouncers started selling coke on the side, which Tommy got wind of and wasn’t happy about. It got sorted but Joey kept on pushing the boundaries until…’

‘Until what?’

Michael closed his eyes and shook his head. ‘Are you sure you want to know all this?’

Grace assumed this was going to have something to do with her ex-husband Nathan, as most things from back in those days did. ‘Yes,’ she replied.

‘He was caught banging some stripper, but she also happened to be a certain person’s favourite bit on the side.’

‘A certain person being Nathan?’ she said with a roll of her eyes.

He nodded.

‘So Nathan caught him with his bit on the side?’

Michael swallowed. ‘Not exactly. Me and Sean did. Joey was supposed to be working but we caught him banging this girl and doing coke off her tits in Nathan’s office. But we worked with Nathan then, and … well, we didn’t know you, obviously.’

‘Oh, I don’t care about any of that now,’ she assured him, suddenly realising why he had been looking so uncomfortable. She supposed the fact that he had once defended the honour of her then husband’s mistress might make him feel like he had somehow betrayed her – but he was right, she hadn’t known either him or Sean back then.

‘We gave him a good kicking and took him to Nathan and Tommy to deal with. The stripper incident was the last straw really. Tommy was prepared to be a bit more lenient, but Nathan had been looking for an excuse to get rid of Joey, and that was the perfect one. Tommy backed Joey’s biggest rivals to take over and together they orchestrated a massive takeover.

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