‘Shit up the Governor!’

Over and over again.

Davey and Paddy walked into the lock-up and were amazed to see the two women kneeling on the floor.

‘What the fuck’s going on here?’

Paddy’s voice was loud in the empty garage and both Donna and Carol nearly passed out with fright.

The men walked over to where the two women knelt looking down at a red blanket.

‘Jesus Christ!’ Paddy’s voice was low, incredulous. ‘Did that little lot come out of there?’ He pointed to the hole before him.

Donna nodded and her eyes strayed to the bundles of money before her.

‘The dirty bastard, the filthy bastard! Did you know about this, Jackson?’ Paddy turned on Davey who was staring at the bundles of money in shock.

‘How the fuck would I know about this little lot? Do you think it would still have been here if I had?’

Carol said testily, ‘Where’s it come from, that’s what I’d like to know?’

Davey laughed softly. ‘I wondered what Georgio had done with Lewis’s blag money. He had to have taken it nearby, because he couldn’t have gone too far away. See, he didn’t have the time.’

‘The broken concrete was covered by the boxes. It was only as we moved them out that we saw it.’

Paddy was fuming. ‘We always moved the merchandise by night, he knew that. We never chanced moving it during the day. Georgio was going to come back for this, wasn’t he? And we’d none of us have been any the wiser.’

He shook his head in temper and with a sneaking respect for the man who had tucked him up in more ways than one.

‘When’s he due out, Donna? I really need to know the answer, right?’

She nodded, all the fight and the fear gone now because it was only money, nothing but money, under the concrete floor.

‘Today, Paddy. The jump’s today.’ She saw both Davey’s and Paddy’s look of shock and laughed loudly. ‘You realise what’s going to happen, don’t you? Georgio is going to leave the lot of us high and dry. He’s laughing up his sleeve at the lot of us.’

She roared with mirth, big tears rolling down her face at the stunned expression on their faces.

‘He has had the lot of us over, you as well as me. I wonder when he would have come for his money, eh? Knowing Georgio like I do, he wouldn’t have left this here for long. Maybe he was going to send his darling girlfriend Vida over, eh? Maybe that was the plan.’ She was laughing so hard, it was hurting her.

Carol placed an arm around her shoulders and helped her to her feet.

‘Come on, Donna, give over, will you?’

Paddy nodded. ‘Get her away from here, Carol. Me and Davey will sort this lot out.’