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want to do the job that we came here for.”

    “Oh, right. I get it. I ask you how much the first half was short, you tell me, I double it and then double it again. Would that be about right?”

    “No.” Liam said slowly, “You ask us whatever the hell you want. We don’t tell you, then we take you away and do our job.”

    Hollis was trembling. It reminded me of how he’d made me feel, cowering in the corner of a dark room, time and again. It didn’t give me much pleasure to see him that way, but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t give me any

    He said, “It’s alright. I mean it. You tell me how much you want. Say what you want in total and I’ll double it.”

    Declan asked me, “Are you going to mind us taking your husband away, ma’am?”

    “Now?”

    “About now, yes.”

    “Could you wait about fifteen minutes?”

    “Sure we could. Why?”

    “I have a hair appointment. I’ll be in the salon down on Main Street with half the women of the town.”

    A cruel grin stretched across Declan’s face. I almost came. “So,” he said, “you’ll be all alibied up?”

    “That’s right.” I was impressed by how calm my voice was, by the calmness I felt, thinking of sitting in the salon, acting like nothing in the world was wrong. That was something I’d done plenty of times, but for completely different reasons.

    Liam asked, softly, “And then will we have to worry about what you’re going to say?”

    “Depends.” I said. “On whether you’ll both be here when I get back from having myself pampered and beautified.”

    Declan sounded like a cat that just spotted a bowl of cream. “You look pretty pampered as it is.”

    “Are you going to be here?”

    “Sure.”

    “Then you’ve no need to worry about what I’m going to say.”

    Declan said, “We’ll wait ten minutes while you get to your appointment, then we’ll go for a little drive.”

    “The three of you?”

    “That’s right, Mrs Cullen.”

    “And you’re coming back?”

    “Yes, Mrs Cullen.”

    “All of you?”

    Liam and Declan were silent. There it was.

Chapter Thirteen

    L IAM SAID , HE ’ D drive, “Declan,” he told me, “You get in the back with our boy there.”

    Hollis sat in the back. On the way there, Hollis told me, kind of confidentially, “I know that this is about the money, alright. I get it. I’m sorry.” And he said, “Look, I saw you looking at Courtenay.” And he held up his hands, “If she’s what you’re into, a woman like that, hey I won’t judge you.” And he leaned a little closer. “Why don’t you let me go. I’ll give you a nice bag of cash and, if you want, take her with you.”

    He saw the way I looked at him, but I think he misunderstood it. “Doesn’t matter, man. Take her. You can do what you like with her, you know?” and he winked.

    The barn was on a ridge, no-one around as far as the eye could see.

    As we stepped into out of the sun I told Liam, “I’m feeling a bit personal about this one.” He gave me a nod.

    He said quietly, “After, we’re going to have to go back and see about that lovely little bundle of fun.”

    “You mean the wife?”

    He nodded. “We’ll have to do something.” Then Liam laughed as he asked the man, “Will you be brave to the last, Hollis?” It wasn’t a very nice laugh.

    I told him, “I don’t think he will, Liam.”

    “He’s hardly been brave from the first, has he, Declan?”

    “Nope. Nothing you’d really even call ‘bravado,’ I wouldn’t say. A bit of bluster maybe.”

    Hollis’s face drained white.

    The last one, the one with the petrol and the pills had been Liam’s, and now Hollis was mine. I’ve never been one for all those theatrics, all the setting up and meticulous planning. All I want is to get the job done, get gone. Get outside a drink and inside a wriggling beauty.

    He saw me coming with the baseball bat. He moved, but I swung it wide and low to connect in a wet crunch with his