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The next day I visited Jed’s office wearing my flat cap and armed with his key and the codes he’d given me. After first availing myself of the protection of a pair of surgical gloves, I unlocked the door, went inside, and disarmed his alarm system. His landline started ringing but I ignored it. It rang repeatedly.
With a fast-beating heart, I opened the door of the cupboard in which he’d hidden his safe, and unlocked it using the combination I’d got from him. Then I looked inside.
It contained a loaded revolver, a clip of bullets, a couple of memory sticks, and a brown envelope.
So this is what he had planned for me if I’d taken him back to his office to open up his safe, I thought. A bullet in the head. It’s a good thing I put paid to Jed when I did.
There was £1,000 in the envelo
