White Niggers
Chapter 75
Saturday, December 7th, 2019, 08:00
Feldkirchen, Lagerstraße next to the airport of Graz, Styria
Timur's mobile phone rings.
It is Zoe.
"Not a good time," Timur says.
"Good morning, first of all," Zoe says. "Where are your manners?"
"Why do you expect good manners from a male chauvinist pig?" Timur says.
"I will keep it short," Zoe says. "You gotta respect Lisa's choice."
"What do you mean?" Timur says.
"She said no to you and yes to that Austrian," Zoe says. "You must respect this. She has tons of potential boyfriends and if she chose this one, then she knows why."
"I'm looking at him as we speak," Timur says.
"You know that stalking is a criminal offence, don't you?" Zoe says.
"I'll take the risk," Timur says. "Anyway, I don't like what I see."
"Maybe the fact that he is successful and you are not?" Zoe says.
"He is like, seventy years old," Timur says. "Lisa can have any man and he chooses him? Voluntarily? That's suspicious."
"Why she dated a loser like you, that's suspicious," Zoe says. "The ways of Lisa's sexual preferences are inscrutable."
That bitch may be right, Timur thinks. In a weird way both me and this creep are highly counterintuitive partner choices for Lisa.
"By the way, someone smart talked Lisa out of dating you," Zoe says. "Any guesses?"
"Not a clue," Timur says.
"Four letters," Zoe says.
"I'm not in the mood for games," Timur says.
"Your father," Zoe says.
"I don't believe it," Timur says.
"You better," Zoe says. "Lisa told me he told her about some 'condition' of yours, whatever it is."
"That's ridiculous," Timur says.
"She spent time with Buba," Zoe says. "Then she dumped you. Temporal succession implies causation."
I wish I could be certain he didn't do it, Timur thinks. But I can't. Remember how he behaved at the "Capital City Lights"?
Mörtel coughs.
I feel like I'm in the same boat with him, Timur thinks. Which is completely bonkers!
"Bye," Timur says and hangs up.
Mörtel is trembling.
"I will let you go," Timur says. "This time."
He swings the jack handle in his hands.
Mörtel lowers his hands and walks to his white Mercedes.
"But keep in mind: I know where you live," Timur says. "If you hurt Lisa, I will exterminate your entire little people. Understand?"