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My thumb hovered over one, and it sorely tempted me to blow Mr Rigger and the Kong brothers straight to hell for a moment. God, it would be so easy.
Instead, I closed the app and opened up the web browser.
Within a few clicks, I’d learned almost everything there was to know about Jiles Ritter. It was boring stuff.
Unmarried. No kids. A financier of various small-scale businesses and organisations, all legitimate. So, what sort of partner could he have that would make him so nervous?
Satisfied but curious, I put my phone on the table and went upstairs to get dressed into something more suitable.
I had work to do.
And what fun it would be.
No violence. I laughed out loud at that. Mr Ritter clearly lived in a comfy little padded cell, or just in Never Never Land. Just how did he expect me to get his money back in a few days without banging a few heads together? Yell trick-or-treat at them?
Money lending was a dirty business. When the debts went unpaid, that didn’t leave many avenues for collection.
Outside, the rains began.
