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He recognised the voice before the caller identified himself and he felt every nerve in his body tense

‘What do you want?’ He steaetting straight to the point He flicked back his wrist and wondered what Jack was doing calling hiht that he could scramble a few favours froain

‘I know you’re a very busy man, Mr Falcone…’

‘Yes I aet to the point’

‘Could we meet, mate?’

‘What for?’ Silence greeted his direct question ‘Has Francesca put you up to this? Because if she thinks that I’ to be a soft touch for ether, then you can run along and tell her fro tree’

‘Els doesn’t know that I’ood chance she’d kill me if she did’

Against his will, Angelo was intrigued It eak but what har the man? If , then wasn’t it best to o that none would be forthco?

‘I can see you tonight Take it or leave it’ Intrigued but not so intrigued that he was going to ton ‘I’ll be there in half an hour I intend to stay for one drink and I won’t wait’

He pressed the end button on his phone, cutting off any atteotiation

He’d spent the past teeks itching for a fight, he thought griet one

CHAPTER NINE

‘YOU did what?’ Francesca’s eyes widened in horror To be greeted at eight in thean open field only to find that you’d stepped off the edge of a cliff No, been pushed off the edge of a cliff And the perpetrator of the cri for all the world as though his casual announce some trivial bit of information about the price of shellfish

Jack braced himself to weather the storm

‘Told hinancy’