“OK,
then,” I said, turning away, heading towards the stairs.
The phone rang as I passed it.
Hoping it might be Violet, I lifted the receiver, my heart pounding.
“Congratulations,” said a disembodied voice, “you have won a guaranteed
major prize in the Lithuanian State Lottery.”
I
slammed the phone down, muttering a curse under my breath as I walked
upstairs. They’d got me once. Never again.
(from Inspector
Hobbes and the Curse by Wilkie Martin)
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