Payback by Kimberley Chambers

Author:Kimberley Chambers [Chambers, Kimberley]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Thrillers, Suspense
ISBN: 9780007435067
Google: 2VbVAAAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0007503156
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

Queenie and Vivian shared a worried glance as Vinny paced up and down the bungalow, letting off steam. Joanna was still nowhere to be seen and Vinny had visions of her, her mother, father and Molly playing happy families somewhere nearby.

‘Sit down, love. You’re wearing the carpet out. I’m sure Jo has gone out with Nancy, ’cos we haven’t seen her and the boys all day either. Nancy’s sour-faced mother has been down here for the past week now. Bloody cheek, if you ask me. Didn’t have the guts to stay opposite us though. Booked her own chalet, apparently.’

Vinny was too bothered about his own problems to care whether Nancy’s mother was still in the vicinity or not. ‘Pour us a Scotch, Mum, and make it a large one,’ he ordered, collapsing into an armchair.

‘Where’s Little Vinny? You left him at home?’ Vivian enquired.

‘Don’t talk to me about that little shit. Gonna get the hiding of his life when I get home.’

‘Why? What’s he done now?’ Queenie asked.

When Vinny explained that Little Vinny had run away, then showed them his letter, both women tutted with disapproval. ‘Needs a bloody good fawpenny one, if you ask me,’ Vivian mumbled.

Queenie sighed. ‘You are seriously going to have to take a firmer hand with that boy, Vin. He’s spiralling out of control. You, Roy and Michael never gave me grief like that. Brenda was my biggest worry, and that was only because she’s a girl. Well, she was a cheeky little mare an’ all, but yous boys were angels compared to her and Little Vinny.’

‘I bet he’s staying with that Ben Bloggs. Disgusting family they are. Vermin of the very worst kind,’ Vivian said.

‘I went round the Bloggs’ place, he wasn’t there. Ben reckons Little Vinny has met some bird called Shazza who lives in Dagenham.’

‘Oh, my gawd! She sounds choice with a name like Shazza,’ Queenie remarked.

‘Next thing you know he’ll knock her up and you’ll be a granddad, Vinny,’ Vivian added.

‘Don’t bleedin’ say that. I’m not old enough to be a great-granny yet,’ Queenie spat.

‘I dunno what I’m gonna do with him. I thought working at the club would help make him grow up, but the boy’s got a mind of his own. He’s even had his head shaved again. Gave him a clump for that, but nothing I seem to do has the desired effect. He’ll know all about it when I get hold of him next week though. I’ll knock seven colours of shit out of him if I have to.’

‘And so you should!’ said Queenie emphatically. ‘Better that than he becomes a liability to you. I don’t want him spoiling the good name of this family.’

Vinny managed a smile for the first time that day. ‘We’re hardly that family out of Little House on the Prairie, Mum, but I do know where you’re coming from.’

‘Aw, my Lenny used to love that programme. Cried his eyes out sometimes while watching it he did. That and Lassie,’ Vivian reminisced.

‘I remember him crying over Lassie.

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