Chapter 114

They were both plastered in the sticky blood and the smell of it was in Kyle's nostrils, making him feel nauseous on more than one occasion. Strangely the close proximity of the body didn't make him feel uncomfortable, scared or upset, perhaps because it seemed to him that it was really just a body. it seemed uninhabited to him, perhaps disassociating it from Edwin, the personality, making his job of wrapping it a little easier.

They brought it up to the staircase under the bar, then returned and began to scrub the floor clean, sorting the place out in anothet twenty minutes. Kyle suggested they stop for a cigarette before heading back upstairs and they took the opportunity to have a look around the underground safehouse.

The main room was broken up into sections in an open-plan style, with a lounge area at one end, a small dining table half way up and a kitchen area at the other end. Two doors led from the kitchen, one to a food storeroom, the other up to the bar. Opposite the dining table was two doors, one leading to the kitchen courtyard above, the other to the room with all the CCTV cameras and security controls. Other doors led to a bedroom and a small bathroom with a shower cubicle.