Percy and Joe Kidnap the Girl: An MM Action Adventure Romance by W. H. Lockwood

Author:W. H. Lockwood [Lockwood, W. H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Castlefield Press
Published: 2023-05-04T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

A FUNNY STORY

It had taken all that remained of Percy’s money to convince the border guards to wave the car through to Tunisia, with Althea secretly stashed in the unopened boot. That job done and Althea back in her seat, the three rode in silence for some time, until a long and obtrusive sigh from Althea brought the other two back to the present.

“Are we boring you?” Percy yawned.

“Yep,” she replied. Percy laughed softly, Joe sat up tall and tried to turn his thoughts away from car insurance and zombie assailants to listen to Althea. “Say I believe you’re a priest,” she leaned forward towards Percy, “and I still don’t buy that you’re an art historian, but anyway, what’s with you two?”

“I’m just trying to take a holiday,” Joe said.

“And you’re about to have the best holiday of your life,” Percy replied. “One short boat trip, just maybe one or two meetings with some criminals, and I’ll make sure of it.”

Joe, looking none too sure about the criminals, said, “Maybe we should have gone to Malta.”

“Not Malta,” came the swift response.

“Not Malta?”

“Not… I can’t go there. The Knights…”

A pregnant pause. “Did you piss the Knights off?”

“They started it.”

Joe let go a long, tolerant sigh. “Was it Caravaggio again?”

“I just… It wouldn’t have been honest to not say anything.”

Joe burst out laughing, which got a slightly bashful grin from Percy, which Althea watched with interest. “How long have you two known each other?”

“I don’t know.” Joe looked to Percy. “Six months maybe?”

“About that.”

“And how do people like you find each other?”

“People like us?” winced Joe.

“Mmm. Weird supernatural-obsessed guys. Did you meet at a séance or something?”

“Not far off,” Joe laughed.

“That’s a funny story actually,” Percy said, then hesitantly added, “but… it’s also a long one.”

Althea looked around pointedly at the lack of anything to see. “It doesn’t look like we’re there yet, so—”

“Well, all right,” Percy cut her off, “I’ve been dying to tell someone, actually.”

“It is a pretty funny story,” Joe concurred with a smile.

Althea leaned forward excitedly. “Let’s hear it.”

“Okay, so,” Percy began, “my brother went missing when I was a child and I was told he was abducted,” he glanced over with a half-apologetic look and added, “that’s not the funny bit yet.”

Joe nodded his happy agreement.

“Store that bit away for later. Anyway, I had this book, the Necronomicon—”

“The necra-what-now?” Althea asked.

“The Necronomicon,” Joe said. “The Book of the Dead. It’s supernatural. It holds all known knowledge of darkness and evil dead things.”

Althea nodded uncertainly, and Percy continued, “But naturally those evil dead things want the book too, so whoever has the book is in constant mortal peril. So obviously I needed to offload the book.”

Joe let out a laugh at the memory, and Percy smiled lovingly over at him, but noting Althea’s increasing discomfort, he added, “That’s not the funny bit yet, either. So, I had to get rid of the book, and I had this, or I have, I have a brother, a different one to the one I mentioned before, whom I was estranged from at that time.

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