Diamonds Forever (Diamond Trilogy 3) - Page 71

‘Oh, right, I get it. But I still don’t get what you’re doing in here.’

‘No, neither do I. And I don’t know what you’re doing here either. Are you mixed up with Harville? Do you work for him? Where is this place?’

He managed to sit up this time, and make out Kayley’s eyes in the gloom.

‘Your guess is as good as mine, duck. And me, work for Harville – do I fuck? No chance. Never in a million years.’

‘So, what

…?’

‘He’s been out to get me ever since I grassed him up, to get Jason out of bother. And now he’s got me.’

‘So, are you saying he’s, like, keeping you prisoner?’

‘Certainly looks like it. Unless he wants me as a pet.’

‘So then I’m …?’

‘I don’t know but it’s not exactly the kind of accommodation you’re used to, is it, love? Where’s the en suite? I’d complain to the management if I were you.’

He laughed weakly, enjoying Kayley’s down to earth black humour despite their dire straits, but sobered rapidly once the pain came clanging back into the side of his head.

‘But he can’t do this,’ he whimpered. ‘What on earth is he playing at? He can’t do this to me. I’m Deano Diamond!’

‘Yeah, well, you might be surprised to know that I’m human too, but apparently it’s OK to chuck me in a cellar,’ said Kayley.

‘I didn’t mean that … It’s outrageous behaviour, no matter who …’

‘Yeah, sorry. Just feeling a bit sensitive. It is hard to see how he could get away with doing this to you. I mean, people care what happens to you, don’t they? Lots of people. I wouldn’t worry. The feds’ll be all over this place like a dose of the clap before you know it.’

‘I hope you’re right. What does he think he’s doing?’

‘Why did he lamp you one? If you don’t mind me asking.’ Kayley sat herself on the edge of the uncomfortable camp bed.

He could smell the faint remains of her cheap perfume and hear the clanking of a big chunky bracelet. There was something in those twin stimulants that transported him back to his teenage years and made him feel as if anything was possible. Strange for a man lying injured on a camp bed in a locked room.

‘I don’t know. It was all a bit chaotic. Harville had some hare-brained scheme to get his revenge on your friend Jason, and I somehow ended up at the sharp end of it.’

‘Jason’s here?’ Kayley’s voice was urgent. ‘In this building? Now?’

‘Well, he was. I …’ Deano tailed off, the effort of memory putting too much strain on his aching brain cells.

‘That’s really weird. What’s he doing here? Is he looking for me?’

‘No. Harville kind of tricked him into getting into the car with us. Jason didn’t realise who I was with at the time.’

‘So he’s being kept prisoner here too?’

‘Well, perhaps. I didn’t realise the place had a suite of dungeons … You never can tell, can you?’

‘Jenna’s going to be beside herself. Her boyfriend, her ex and her PA all missing at the same time. Surely the boys in blue must be on their way.’

Deano heard the hope in her voice, a hope that came from fear.

‘How long have you been down here?’ he asked, putting his own problems aside for the first time in his concern for his co-prisoner.

‘Not sure. Hours.’

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