Breakout (Alex King Book 7) by A P BATEMAN

Author:A P BATEMAN [BATEMAN, A P]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rockhopper Publishing Ltd
Published: 2019-02-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty

Caroline had paired off with Rashid and they posed as a couple in the line, which wound its way around the ground floor of the Willis Tower. She could see Marnie and Adams up ahead but did not look for the others. She knew Ramsay would arrive at the tower in another fifteen minutes. He would simply be on his own and take an interest in the Chicago tour guide he had purchased, as well as the information booklet he would buy at additional cost. People who attended such tourist spots alone tended to take great interest in where they were and learn as much as they could. Adams had his arm around Marnie’s shoulder and Rashid was quietly seething.

“Let it go,” Caroline whispered in his ear.

“He’s just being a dick.”

“He’s being a pro,” she said. “And they’re a couple, for appearances sake. Nobody remembers the loved-up couple, but they will remember the couple who looked like they argued their way around the tallest building in the Western hemisphere. So, put your bloody arm around my waist and relax.”

“Is it?”

“What?”

“The tallest building?”

“Yes, I think so. Sixteen-hundred and fifty-feet. And only relegated because the buildings in the Middle-East just slap on a bloody great antenna.”

“Wow, you learn something every day.”

“Once more with enthusiasm.”

“And I thought we were just here for the view,” Rashid chided.

“I think ninety-nine percent are here for the view,” she smiled and put on a tour guide’s impression. “You can see four states – Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana…”

Ahead of them, banks of monitors told different stories about how Sears built the building as their base and flagship store. There were narrations at certain points where the story of its construction would be told. Cardboard cut outs of celebrities and a chart of how many of them would make up the height gave photo opportunities for people.

They reached an escalator and travelled down forty-feet or so and re-joined a line, but this time they could see the ticket offices. Marnie and Adams had purchased their tickets and were joining a faster-moving line. Caroline caught sight of Big Dave who was reading a brochure and studying a timeline of the building’s construction on the wall.

After Rashid and Caroline had purchased their tickets the queue moved quickly to the elevator bank. Among the fastest in the world, they could get from the basement level to the Skydeck viewing platform in forty-seconds. The elevators were crammed full and the sensation was one of tremendous speed as the car shot upwards and started its slowdown way before the top. As it glided to a halt, the mass of people disembarked, and Caroline caught sight of the bottom of the elevator shaft in the gap as she stepped through the doors. She had never been inside such a tall building and as she followed Rashid past a bank of windows, the height gave her a queasy feeling in her stomach and a leaden sensation in her legs.

“Are you alright?” Rashid asked.

“I think I have vertigo,” she replied.

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