Viva La Madness by J.J. Connolly

Author:J.J. Connolly [CONNOLLY, J.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC000000, FIC050000, FIC031000
ISBN: 9781468301755
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Published: 2012-03-17T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

THIS BE DARK

Or fuckin thought I did … Miguel told me some, then the transcripts and recordings told me the rest. Like Smiler’s file-sharing program – nicking bits of other software and creating a new facilitating host … things came into sharp, crisp focus.

Result: the shocking insight into the dark mind of Jesus Zambrano.

Q. Why has Miguel dropped this information on me?

A. To get the London Hounds on his side, to encourage local assistance.

Kids, see … Miguel knows that one thing that’s global is nobody – no matter how criminally immoral – doesn’t get angry where kids are concerned. The slightest whiff of kiddie nonsense sends London criminals into a homicidal rage.

Smiler was right. Jesus had an obsessive fixation on his cousin Jenna since she was seven years old and he was twenty. Fourteen years ago he told her in all seriousness he was gonna marry her; she found him creepy and never allowed herself to be left alone in the same room. Where Jesus was sexually was anyone’s guess, and my guess was that sex was simply an extension of his all-devouring sociopathic behaviour. Jesus woulda fucked the hole in a doughnut. He fucked mostly girls, the younger the better, the dumber the better, but every now and then he’d do the business on a guy, willing or unwilling – a power mechanism rather than sexual gratification. Miguel wanted to pull the trigger on his older cousin five years ago, didn’t like this nonsense with his sister. Really regrets not doing it now.

The family joke about them one day being an item stopped being funny as Jenna got older. It seems Jesus had seriously thought that he and His Princess would get it together. But she was repelled by the thought – and sight – of Jesus. Papa Vic told Jesus it was a sin in the eyes of God and man. Jesus went to see a sympathetic Catholic clergyman and asked under what circumstances could first cousins be married – under no circumstances, you sick fuck, replied the priest.

Jesus decided to ignore the priest, to ignore everyone. He formally asked for her hand at a large family dinner on the candlelit veranda of the Zambrano villa in the hills above Caracas. Jenna was embarrassed. Papa Victor and Miguel said nothing for a good five seconds …

They looked at one another … Then they laughed till the tears rolled down their faces, slapped their thighs and held their stomachs. The more they laughed the hotter Jesus burnt. When they wiped away the tears, Miguel asked Jesus to repeat the question. But Jesus was deadly silent. He bubbled with humiliation and rage.

They impolitely declined; they had bigger plans for Jenna. Jenna was an asset, not to be wasted on that prize prick. Her marriage was an opportunity to make an alliance – The Plan discussed in the conversations of Miguel and Papa Vic. Not such an archaic attitude; a lot of people are in arranged marriages, whether they know it or not.

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