Julia slammed her hands down angrily on the steering wheel. “I told your boyfriend not to bring the police into this!” They circled the block and pulled up in a side street behind the library. Julia yanked up the handbrake and swore loudly. “This is not part of the plan!”Celestine looked at her cynically. She, personally, had never known a time when a plan had come together as expected. Had Julia really expected kidnapping and robbery was something that would be easy to pull off? Was she living in some fantasy world where people said and did everything they were promised to do?“Gee, Julia, fancy someone not honoring your dishonorable demands.” Celestine barely felt the quick, hard slap that Julia delivered to her bruised face. That the woman was pissed off was only too evident. However, Celestine’s face, hands and feet were so numb from the pain that she had already endured that the slap meant nothing. “What now?” Celestine pressed her head back wearily into the seat headrest.
