Chapter 57
Crocodile? Had he heard right? This he had to see.
Kurt rose from the sofa. The others got up too. Leaving Peremo tossing fifty dollar notes at two of the girls dancing with each other, they shadowed the kingpin as he plodded out of the room.
They trailed him into a marble-floored corridor, swerving with him to the right and into an open room, flanked by four columns. In the middle of the room, a rectangular space had been carved out of the floor. Kurt heard a splash. His pulse drummed.
He rushed forward and gazed down. Wow. It was massive, charcoal-grey with frightening jaws and teeth. It wouldn’t be much of an effort for it to chow down both his legs and thighs. A collar of rubies garlanded the beast’s throat and roped around the huge tail was a gold chain, set with sapphi
