CHAPTER 24Jimmy emulated nonchalance, even a small semblance of cocksureness, certainly relief at being left alone with the man servant, despite the innermost sense of jealousy and anger when the masked gunman disappeared through the door with Christy in his arms. Seconds later he heard a car crunch on the gravel outside the window, followed by the wail of screaming tyres as the car sped down the long tarmac covered drive, the gunman obviously in a hurry to get away. Then nothing. It was then the gradual depression set in for Jimmy Lascar. The terrible inevitability that he would never see Christy again. The words ‘if you’ve f****d her, I’ll bleedin’ kill you’ ringing in his ears. God knows he hadn’t f****d her and now Jimmy felt certain he would not get the chance. Absently he observed wi
