‘Just keep going,’ he replied. ‘Top floor.’
Doreen nodded and kept climbing, her nerves negating her tiredness. Nick waited on the landing for John to catch up. ‘Where’s Ted?’ he asked. John shook his head.
‘Didn’t make it,’ he said, panting with effort. ‘Silly bugger got caught.’
‘s**t,’ Nick mumbled, genuinely saddened for a moment. Then he shook his head and carried on up the stairs.
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The climb up to the top floor seemed to take forever. Even though their appreciation of material possessions and the value of property had been massively reduced by the events of the last seven days, the opulence and scale of the vast penthouse apartment Barry had claimed as his own still impressed all of them.
‘Nice place she’s got here,’ Nick said as he looked around the low-lit rooms. Some of the
