Who Told the Albanians (5)

[Lukyan Lyubof]

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CHAPTER FIVE

Ruth stared at the paperwork in front of her but couldn’t concentrate. The night she and Harry had spent together before the situation with Lucas and Adam had occurred was for some reason at the forefront of her mind.
She’d cooked dinner – a pasta bake – and he’d brought chocolate and wine. The evening had passed slowly but in a good way, ending with them both falling asleep on the settee snuggled against each other. She really liked Harry and hoped for similar evenings when work allowed.

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Jo entered the flat and listened for a few seconds, she didn’t want to burst in on anyone. Satisfied there was no-one there she started to look through the rooms.
The flat was a mess and Jo was beginning to see how easy it would have been to kill the asset if he was this careless about everything. Mind you, she reflected, Ros had said Lucas’ flat had been a mess but strategically placed, still she didn’t think the same for the assets flat.
Twenty minutes later she found what she was looking for in the lounge bin; a scrap of paper with an address scrawled on it. She pulled out her phone and called it in.

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Harry sat at his desk glancing through the window at Ruth. The other night had been delightful and the pasta bake had been the best he’d ever eaten, although he was a biased judge. He hoped she felt the same way he did about her; perhaps, he thought, he should take her out for a meal, get rid of the hassle of cooking.
He was interrupted from his thoughts by a knock at the door and Ros appeared.

‘What have we got?’ he asked her.

‘Jo’s found an address, Tariq’s pulled it up , Jo’s on her way there and I’m about to head down too.’

‘Right, stay in contact; I want to know what happens when it happens.’

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Tariq followed the red dots on his screen that were Ros and Jo; the latter arriving minutes before the other but waiting so they could enter the house together.

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As they entered Ros could taste the staleness of the house and fought the urge to gag.
She searched the downstairs rooms whilst Jo searched upstairs. In the kitchen she found a good supply of ready meals and bottles of mineral water, the rest of the rooms were empty save for cigarette butts in a room Ros would have described as a lounge.

‘Ros, up here,’ Jo’s voice called down the stairs.

Pulling out her gun and dreading the worst she ran up the stairs and over to Jo who stood in the doorway to what would have been a bedroom.

‘Inside, look,’ Ros looked, expecting to see two bodies, ‘it looks like there was a fight.’ Jo was pointing at the marks on the walls, some accompanied by faint streaks of blood; a table lay broken on the floor, one of its legs lying at the other end of the room.
Ros walked over to the radiator and picked something up; as she walked back over Jo could see she was holding two plastic ties.

‘They were here and they were alive or they wouldn’t have been restrained,’ she walked past Jo, already on the phone to Harry.
Jo hoped that somewhere, wherever they were that Adam and Lucas were still alive.

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In another grimy room in another abandoned house a door opened and a tall man walked in. In front of him, lying on the floor hands behind him secured with a plastic tie was another man who looked up as he entered.
The man on the floor spat out a mouthful of blood ignoring more that trickled down his face and glared at the other.

‘Why now, after all you’ve been through, why turn traitor now? What did they promise you? I thought you were worth more.’

‘Shut up.’ The man bent down and opened a water bottle, he pulled the other man up so he was propped against the wall then lifted the man’s head and placed the bottle against his lips, ‘drink, you need it.’

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‘Harry we have a problem,’ Malcolm called over to Harry from his desk where he sat looking through internet sites, ‘there’s been a threat against the American Embassy.’


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[Aria]

Really pleased you updated. Great chapter with some good H/R moments. Liked Ros and Jo working together to find Adam and Lucas and its good to have Malcolm back where he belongs. You still have me wondering who the evil mastermind is and a gripping cliffhanger to finish. Hope you update soon.

[HellsBells]

Liked the H/R scenes. Lucas can't be a traitor, can he ? You are building the suspense up really well, and I can't wait for the next chapter.

[Lukyan Lyubof]

Thanks for the comments, I have a feeling this may go one for a bit longer than planned as I need to add in the 'bad side' a bit more