Disaster Inc by Caimh McDonnell

Author:Caimh McDonnell [McDonnell, Caimh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780995507593
Publisher: McFori Ink
Published: 2018-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Matt took a long drag on the cigarette and looked out at the view. Even on a dull March day it was impressive. You could feel like the king of the world up here.

The offices that Lanark Lane Investments had moved into only three months previously were on the seventeenth floor of an eighteen-floor building on Park Avenue. The eighteenth floor was taken up by the South African consulate. The story Matt had heard was that the whole building had been paid for using South African rands back in the days when apartheid was alive and well. It wouldn’t surprise him. It’s not like it’d be the only beautiful skyscraper in this skyline that had been built using blood money. Of course, these were very different times now. The South African consul general was black, as were about half of his staff. Very friendly they were too. Brad had got to know one of the top aides when he’d been kind enough to hook him up with his favourite dealer for what Brad called “fun-time Fridays”. The aide had repaid the favour by getting them access to use the consulate’s balcony garden when they needed to smoke in a city where doing that anywhere was now frowned upon.

Matt had tried to give up smoking during a health kick he’d gone on a few months ago. He’d been spending too much time with Brad, and Charlie had staged a one-man intervention. Jesus, Charlie. Every time someone said the name, Matt felt a knife being stuck into him. OK, he hadn’t been perfect, but Charlie had been Matt’s best friend, and now he was dead. Jennie was still alive though, and Matt had to focus on that. Right now, the only thing he cared about in the whole world was not having his sins passed on to his blameless baby sister.

The door opened behind Matt.

“For fuck’s sake, dude.”

Matt didn’t need to turn around to know it was Brad. He stood beside him for a moment, struggling to light one of those ridiculous thin brown French cigarettes that he’d recently taken up smoking. The guy really was a douchebag of the highest order.

They stood there for a second, smoking.

“How did it go with the cops?” asked Brad.

“Fine,” responded Matt.

They’d been interviewed separately. Cole had explained how it would happen. Their housemate and colleague was dead, and the cops would naturally want to talk to them about it. Matt had stuck to the story: Charlie was his friend, but he had no ideas about his sexual preferences. Well, the guy liked women, he knew that. That was why it wasn’t a big surprise when he didn’t come home last night, as he was quite the fan of the sleepover. He and Brad had been beyond stunned to find out both about his death and the particular circumstances. The police assured them that there would be an arrest soon; they had a very strong suspect.

It had been surreal. Matt had felt like he was having an out of body experience while he watched himself lie with such ease.

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