Twenty-Nine
Clare knew that no-one disappeared without careful planning, and she’d been planning ever since taking on the role as Steve Gordon’s assassin. Not only did she not trust men like Steve Gordon, who went about re-organising their world by eliminating the people that stood in their way through hired killers, like herself, she did not trust thugs like George and Malcolm, who only thought about themselves.
In a way, she was grateful that George and Malcolm hadn’t been able to do what they should have done, when Toby appeared on the scene as they were despatching Kieran Moore. That failure had redeemed them a little, as human beings, in her eyes, and had, truth be told, helped her make the decisions she had made. If they’d done the right thing, and simply slit the kid’s throat, she
