♠ Buried with children ♠

Six bullets should be enough. Hell’s bells, if he couldn’t take out a couple of civilians with a fully-loaded revolver, he shouldn’t be carrying one.

There they were up ahead, changing lanes. No indicators. Bloody cage drivers. He wasn’t close enough to see whether they’d even checked behind them before moving across. Probably not.

Dirk accelerated. The Harley surged forward, cutting through what little traffic there was on a Monday. He would have preferred to be on his beloved Ninja, but it was still being patched together. Like Mick.

Bloody Mick. Lying on his back in a hospital bed, barking out orders. Do this. Do that. Bring my ex-girlfriend to see me. Take potshots at the bastards who did this to me. Fetch me some whiskey. Make sure it has an e in it.

Still, Dirk grinned under his helmet, it was good to have him back. Things weren’t the same without the obnoxious bogtrotter.

The black Mercedes was slowing down now, turning left into Westpark Cemetery. Well, that was fitting. Maybe they’d be kind enough to stand next to an open grave. Make things easy for him.

Dirk pulled into the first parking area he saw, engine still running, keeping an eye on the car as it crawled along the quiet internal roads. Nobody else was around. No witnesses. And no security. The people here had nothing left to steal. Not even their dignity.

Ah. The Merc had stopped in one of the newer sections. At least, this part had fresh mounds of dirt where new forever homes had been recently prepared. Dirk revved his bike as quietly as he could and moved slowly in that direction.

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