Chapter 42
Chapter Forty-Two
Elijah hammered on the door of the seedy flat until someone let him in. He knew William had stolen that pendant, and he was going to get it back. To see Lilly so upset broke his heart, and he wanted to make her happy again.
He started to kick at the door and then it opened, what he saw made him angry.
He was looking into the eyes of a drugged up skinny girl.
She could barely focus or stand. She opened the door wide as an invitation to come in.
She must have been used to big men hammering on the door because she didn’t flinch at all at Elijah coming into the flat.
Barging past her, he strode down the hallway to the first room on the right.
Stepping inside the darkened room, he looked around to see if he could find William.
There were several bodies in different states of dress, sleeping.
They all looked like they had partied all night.
Bottles everywhere, blankets and pillows were strewn over the floor.
It smelt terrible, someone had thrown up in the room and the rancid smell lingered in the air.
Elijah couldn’t see William among the sleeping bodies and made his way through to the kitchen.
He stopped dead in his tracks, Steve and Simon stood at the kitchen counter, and they were counting pills into small plastic pouches.
Elijah looked at the countertop and back to the pair of them, there wasn’t anyone else in the room.
There were over twenty filled packets all with pills in.
Elijah had finally caught them red-handed, and they hadn’t noticed him yet.
Steve continued to count the pills into the bags, he had five more bags to fill and Elijah patiently waited.
He wanted to see what Steve did with them next and see if William made an appearance.
He didn’t have to wait long. Simon finished the last packet and then stuffed them all into his inside coat pocket.
Once he was done, he looked up and froze for a few seconds before walking back to the door behind him.
Elijah nodded his head, indicating for Simon to go ahead, this confused Simon but he went for the door, anyway.
It was locked and he couldn’t open it. They looked scared.
Elijah was blocking his only other way out.
He tried to rattle the handle of the door, but it still wouldn’t budge.
It wasn’t going to, Elijah knew this because Mickey was on the other side making sure they couldn’t escape.
Elijah was surprised how calm he was remaining, he couldn’t find William and knew it had to do with the pieces of shit standing in front of him.
“Where is he?” Elijah asked calmly.
“Who are you talking about?” Simon asked.
“William, where is William?” Elijah asked again.
“How the hell should I know, he hasn’t answered any of my calls in the last day? He has stopped paying for his drugs and I am in desperate need of the cash he owes. Maybe you could tell me where he is?” Simon said.
“I don’t know where he is which is why I am asking you. Now tell me where William is?” Elijah asked more impatiently.
Elijah was across the room in seconds and held Simon by the throat. He shook him a few times and released his neck so that he could talk.
“I won’t ask you again, where is William?” Elijah said.
Simon’s eyes had widened with the constricted air to his lungs and he spluttered when Elijah released his throat.
“What the fuck do you think you’re doing?” Steve said from across the room, not even trying to come to Simon’s aid. “I thought the fire at your bar was enough not to try anything like this?”
“That was you? Well thanks for the confession, that will make things a lot easier. Oh, and I am threatening him. Tell me where he is or I’ll call the police on your little drug party here,” Elijah said.
“You wouldn’t dare call the police with your girlfriend’s brother involved. I don’t think you would do that,” Steve said.
“Try me. You have ten seconds to tell me.”
Elijah began to squeeze Simon’s neck as each second passed, Simon began to struggle and Elijah’s smile widened. Simon had put his hands up in surrender, Elijah loosened his grip enough to let him talk but not enough to get loose.
“OK, ok, William is at Liam’s place on Surry Street, he’s there,” Simon said.
Elijah kept his hand where it was and pulled his phone out from his pocket. Searching the internet for Surry Street and asked Simon for the number of the house. Checking the number existed.
It did.
Simon rubbed his neck where Elijah had removed his hand and glared back up at him.
“You’ll regret this when I tell my parents what you did, they will make poor old Lilly pay,” Simon said.
“What is it with you society kids? No one cares who your parents are, least of all Lilly. If your parents want to embarrass her parents then go ahead. No one cares,” Elijah said.
Simon tried the door behind him and it opened, it swung open out into the garden and Elijah grinned at them and nodded over his head. Simon turned to see what Elijah was looking at and his face paled when he turned back.
“You said you wouldn’t call the police if I told you.” Simon said.
“I lied, sorry, your drug dealing nearly killed Lilly and countless others and that is not acceptable. You deserve to rot in jail,” Elijah said.
The police came through to the kitchen from the front and back and rounded up all the occupants. Elijah looked at Mickey and smiled, they made a good team and his plan had worked. Mostly worked, he still needed to find the pendant.