JJ03 - Black Ice by Leah Giarratano

Author:Leah Giarratano [Giarratano, Leah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Police, Australian
ISBN: 9781741668131
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2008-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

32

Tuesday 9 April, night

Oh fuck. Fuck! Not a great way to begin.

The intruder balled the bleeding hand into a fist and wrapped it in the tea towel – the fabric that was supposed to protect it when punching out the window to Seren's flat.

The right hand, too. Useless now.

Fucken bitch. Another fucken thing to hate her for. Stuck up, pretty little slut.

The intruder stalked through Seren's shadowy unit.

33

Tuesday 9 April, night

Seren scrunched as far into the corner of the cab as possible, her bag covering as much of her bare legs as she could manage. Although she closed her eyes, she could still feel the cabbie gawking at her through his rear-vision mirror. She felt stretched, tissue-paper thin, as though one more set of hungry eyes would stab right through her skin, make her bleed. The attention tonight had been excruciating; feigning indifference to it, exhausting.

But it had worked. Christian had been enthralled the whole night. Her wallet was now full of cab vouchers – I don't ever want you on a bus again, he'd said. And she was to meet him in the city when she finished work tomorrow. Shopping. She'd just come out and told him: it'll be clubbing tomorrow night, and I need some new things. You don't mind, do you, darling?

She leaned her head against the headrest. So tired. She'd catch maybe four hours sleep before getting up for work again. A single tear made it out through her squeezed-shut eyes. She hadn't imagined how hard this would be. Smiling at him, kissing him, his hands on her. She'd once loved him. Now she hated him. She felt like a whore.

But one thing was certain. Seren snapped open her eyes and shot the driver a gaol-house stare that put his eyes back on the road. Cab vouchers and pretty clothes wouldn't buy her. Cocaine, lavish dinners, not even love would do it.

She would sell what she had to offer, but it would cost Christian a million dollars.

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