“Boss”
“Go ahead Joe”
“I forgot to tell you, Pete’s on a bonus for this, a mega bonus” “Why?”
Not that I minded Joe paying out bonuses, he had free rein to whatever he thought necessary, but I did like to know why!
“He’s shaved his moustache off!”
“Fucking hell!”
I told Katie and she creased up with laughter,
“I just can’t imagine it, no way daddy”
Then she went quiet,
“What’s going to happen to us daddy?”
“I don’t know baby, I honestly don’t know, but the one thing I do know is that I won’t let you get hurt, no matter what!”
Scooting over the seat she kissed me,
“I know daddy”
The voice in my ear said softly,
“It’s his house they’re heading for boss”
“Ok, stand by”
I needed to think about it, but Joe ignored the “stand by” and came straight back to me,
“We’ve got it sorted boss, make your way to the old gravel pits near their house, know the one I mean?”
“Yes”
“And boss”
“Yes Joe?”
“Dump Katie before you get there, please mate”
Katie nearly ripped my head off grabbing the ear and mouth piece,
“No way Joe, nice thought and thank you, but no thanks, I’m staying!”
We needed to go a different route and quickly to get there first, so I signalled Sadie and Sharon to follow and I gunned the modified V12 under the bonnet.
I covered the twelve miles to the gravel pits in about ten minutes and pulled in under some trees, Sadie went about fifty yards away and Sharon another fifty yards away from her!
“Daddy!”
I turned to Katie and saw her eyes, they were shining excitedly, her legs were apart and she hand both hands down inside her jeans!
“Baby, are you all right?”
“When you passed those cars and that truck was heading for us, I looked at the speedo, you were doing ninety five, I came so hard daddy, I peed myself!”
I reached over and slipped a hand into her jeans and panties, she HAD peed herself, but urine wasn’t the only wetness there!
Wiping my hand all around her still trickling cunt, I took it out and licked my fingers.
“The next time I’m eating you baby, I want you to do that!”
“What pee?”
“Yes”
“Oh fuck” she gasped and her hands went back into her jeans, “I’m cumming again!”
The distinctive sound of a well worn diesel engine reached my ears and Pete’s taxi pulled into the side of the pit. I could see Hal and my wife hammering on the dividing panel between them and the driver, then they saw me getting out of the car!
Sadie, Sharon and Katie came out from under the trees, Joe pulled up in his car and two more of my men completed the happy gathering.
Pete released the central locking and gestured for the passengers to get out, Hal was terrified and refused so I reached in and gripped an ear, he came out of the car and landed in a heap at my feet. My wife stayed where she was, her white face a picture of fear and dread.
“Joe, would you mind?” I nodded towards the taxi and he lent in, offering a hand,
“Out you come please”
She alighted from the cab and smiled weakly at Katie,
“Darling” she whimpered, “All this is a complete misunderstanding you know, we were just”
“Shut up bitch”
Katie’s voice was like a whip, cutting across the still air in the quiet rural countryside.
Pete got out of his cab and reached into the back, “I think this is what you want boss, isn’t it?”
“No he doesn’t, but I do” said a voice from behind me,
“The two gentlemen with the weapons will lay them very carefully on the ground and move away from them”
It was a very cultured voice, almost aristocratic, but there was no mistaking the menace behind it.
Joe and I looked at each other and did as he asked.
“Thank you gentlemen, how very civilised”
Six of them came out from behind some old sheds, each one armed with an Uzi machine pistol and then the head man appeared carrying a Remington 870 12-bore pump action shotgun, sawn off for maximum effect at close range, he held it almost like a bloody umbrella, but I rather fancied that he knew exactly how to use it!
“Well well, now this is interesting isn’t it?”
“It is now” I said somewhat dryly,
“Walking into the middle of our little circle, he unzipped one of the bags,
“How much?” he said to Hal.
“Fuck you”
Expertly the newcomer flicked the Remington up and caught it by the barrel, in the same fluid movement, he smashed the stock into Hal’s face!
Hal screamed through his obviously broken jaw and fragments of teeth spewed from his mouth.
“How much?” the man asked again,
“A gillion” was what it sounded like to me, but we all gathered he meant a million and it seemed to satisfy him.
“Mister Halford” he addressed me, “We know all about you, who you are, what you do and what you used to do, but more importantly sir, we know exactly what you’re capable of doing”
“Look, whoever you are, cut the fucking crap and do what you’re gonna do anyway, you’re beginning to bore me”
“Do?” he laughed and threw the bag at my feet, “There, that’s what I’m going to do, if our friend here is correct there’s a million ponds in there, take it Mister Halford, take it and leave with your associates”
“Just like that”
“Yes, just like that”
“Bollocks”
He looked at me and smiled,
“A word please sir” he said and laying the gun on the ground, beckoned me to join him as he walked out of the circle. We walked to the edge of the flooded pit and he sat down on the sandy bank.
“Cigarette?”
“Thanks” I took it and the proffered light from him.
“Paul, I own the company that your wife and her lover have been systematically milking, therefore I own the company they set up with my money”
“I’d agree with that”
“Stout fellow, I knew you would”
“Get on with it” I growled and he laughed again.
“When you get back to your car Paul, feel under the dash at the passenger side, remove the bug and throw it away, tell the beautiful Sadie to do the same, oh and when you get home do a sweep of your house, I know you have the equipment”
I nodded in agreement while the enormity of his words sank in to my brain!
“I know you knew nothing about their activities and after listening to Joe’s plan to deal with it, I’d rather have you on my side than against me”
“Why not just kill us all now?”
“Because two deaths are more than enough Paul, I’m a hard man not a fucking animal, you’ve done nothing wrong” he laughed again, “Mind you, I suspect it may have been a different story had we not arrived when we did”
“Well you know we intended keeping your money”
“Oh yes, of course I do and what a brilliant idea, I don’t blame you at all old boy, I’d have done exactly the same thing meself!”
“So why let us go?”
“Because what you don’t know is that the lovers there” he gestured with his thumb towards Hal and my wife, “Intended a little piece of arson to help cover their tracks, they were going to fire the office tonight using a delayed action fuse, not only the offices would have gone, but the twenty flats above them complete with the twenty families in them!”
“Fuck!”
“Exactly, now take the money Paul and leave with your friends, I’ll be in touch”
“I think I may well do that”
“Oh Paul, as regards the overheard conversations via the bugs, don’t worry about them, the lady who everyone thinks is my wife, is in reality my sister!”
-To be continued…-