Chapters (52)
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- BOOK ONE
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine
- Chapter Ten
- Chapter Eleven
- Chapter Twelve
- Chapter Thirteen
- Chapter Fourteen
- Chapter Fifteen
- Chapter Sixteen
- Chapter Seventeen
- Chapter Eighteen
- Chapter Nineteen
- Chapter Twenty
- Chapter Twenty-One
- Chapter Twenty-Two
- Chapter Twenty-Three
- Chapter Twenty-Four
- Chapter Twenty-Five
- BOOK TWO
- Chapter Twenty-Six
- Chapter Twenty-Seven
- Chapter Twenty-Eight
- Chapter Twenty-Nine
- Chapter Thirty
- Chapter Thirty-One
- Chapter Thirty-Two
- Chapter Thirty-Three
- Chapter Thirty-Four
- Chapter Thirty-Five
- Chapter Thirty-Six
- Chapter Thirty-Seven
- Chapter Thirty-Eight
- Chapter Thirty-Nine
- BOOK THREE
- Chapter Forty
- Chapter Forty-One
- Chapter Forty-Two
- Chapter Forty-Three
- Chapter Forty-Four
- Epilogue
‘Now then, Sadie, make me a nice cup of coffee and Georgio can bring it to my cell. They’re airing Carmen on the radio today. I do enjoy a tragic romance, don’t you?’
Georgio watched Lewis’s calculated gestures of intimidation and marvelled once more at the power of the little man. Because even though Georgio had three stone on Lewis, he knew he would have to think twice about fronting him up.
Lewis had mental strength on his side.
He was mental enough to do anything.
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chopper watched Lewis and Sadie with a snort of distaste. Homosexuals didn’t bother him as such, it was the queens like Sadie he couldn’t stand. The thought of men walking round acting like tarts went against his rather macho grain.
‘What’s the matter, Chopper? Don’t you like my little friend?’
Chopper amazed everyone in the shower room with his answer. ‘Not really. He’s a prick.’
Steam from the water was thinning in the cold air. Men of all shapes and sizes soaped themselves, washing off the stink of the prison.
Lewis laughed, tweaking at Sadie’s long hair. ‘I don’t think he likes you, my little love. Maybe you ought to try and be a bit nicer to him.’
Chopper moved under the jet, his face immersed in the water.
Georgio stood with a towel over his shoulder, waiting to get under an empty shower, when he noticed Timmy walk in with a towel over his arm. He smiled a greeting, then saw what Timmy was holding, and leant back against the wall watching in anticipation. Lewis was under the shower, two of his minders beside him, Sadie standing dripping wet by his side.
Chopper watched along with Georgio, aware that Lewis had not given Timmy or his feelings enough consideration. Timmy was of the old school of villain. Whatever he thought of Sadie, the fact that Lewis had taken her from under his nose, and in full view of the whole Wing, was eating at him like a cancer. Sadie was also displaying bruising around her buttocks and on the back of her legs. Lewis’s nastiness was well-known. Sadie for her part stood quietly, as she knew she was expected to.
Lewis had just put shampoo on to his hair and was lathering it up, his hard, contained body, without an ounce of fat, glistening with the running lather, when Timmy slammed the hand covered by a towel into his back.
Lewis’s eyes opened wide, his expression one of amazement. He put a hand on to his kidneys and brought it back covered in thick red blood. Before Timmy could repeat the action, Chopper was on him.
Lewis stared at Timmy, dumbstruck.
‘You stupid, stupid cunt! I’ll kill you for this, you fat ponce.’