God of Pain novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: Over the Ropes
Cormac left through the back stairs at eight with his gym bag and a face like a locked door.
"Stay here," he said to Gran in the doorway. "Don't let her out."
"I'm seventy-eight, not a jailer," said Gran, and went back to her television.
I was in Nellie's cab ten minutes later.
Nellie sat beside me in her black hoodie, gripping the door handle, and for once she had nothing to say.
At ten to nine we stopped at the steel door on the Southie dock.
Her cousin stood under the light with his clipboard.
He did not tell me to go home.
He held out the leather book with the brass clasp.
"It was in the drawer," he said. "I took it out at five o'clock, before Tino's people came to set up."
"You'll lose your job."
"I've stood at this door for six years." He pushed the book into my hands. "I think I'm done with the door."
It was heavier than it looked.
I tucked it under my arm, under the hoodie.
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