Dying for Revenge by Eric Jerome Dickey
Author:Eric Jerome Dickey [Dickey, Eric Jerome]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9781873262207
Publisher: Turnaround
Published: 2008-11-01T00:00:00+00:00
Twenty-four
the terror
Miami, Florida.
I had trailed his chauffeured stretch Hummer from the Tides Hotel in South Beach on Ocean Drive, a place described as a sanctuary of extravagance, had followed that oversized monstrosity as they partied up the MacArthur Causeway, chrome sparkling every time a sliver of light touched its lavishness. I shadowed that gas guzzler until the causeway became I-395 and merged onto I-95 right behind them.
They exited at Miami Gardens Drive, made a right, and less than a mile from that exit was their destination, Tootsie’s Cabaret, a playground for men that was the size of a football field, every square foot of it crowded with strippers and international people holding bottles or glasses of mood-altering liquids. Four-hundred-foot main stage, projection screens all over, luxury seating, skyboxes, champagne rooms.
It was like a combination of a meeting at the United Nations and a birthday party at Studio 54. Droves of international men. Hundreds of international women either naked or in thongs, bodies accented by six-inch heels and designer perfumes, some decorated with dollar bills, faces made up like movie starlets, walking around smiling and flirting, more comfortable butt-naked in this cavernous room than they would be fully clothed at a church bake sale. All the girls reminded me of Jennifer Lopez, Paris Hilton, or Eva Longoria. A few were in the Halle Berry category, fewer of the Gabrielle Union type.
Like my target, most of the people in the room were under thirty, but every now and then I passed by an old rich man pawing at the boobs on women the same age as his granddaughters.
A waitress came over. Slender number dressed in black, hair dyed brown, colored with highlights, very Miami Beach in frame and attitude. Tight eyes and a no-nonsense smile. She asked me what I wanted to order and I sent her to get me a Jack and Coke.
When she came back and handed me my drink I asked, “Filipina?”
She shook her head. “Mother is Chinese and my father is Japanese.”
“Didn’t mean to offend.”
“Nothing new, sweetie.” She sighed. “Happens all the time.”
“You’re a pretty woman.”
“Would probably be prettier to you if I was Filipina instead of a Japanese China doll.”
“Guess I blew my chance with you.”
She waggled her hand, showed me an engagement ring. “Dude, you never had a chance.”
I paid her and tipped her, and she walked away in a hurry. I went back to monitoring my target, held my drink but didn’t sip any. Couldn’t do alcohol if I wanted to. Was taking the meds Hawks had given me. Hands were scratched, but no open wounds. I ached, but B.C. had that under control.
Thoughts about women slain on Berwick Street stayed with me. I was worried about Powder Springs. Had checked the cameras all day long, Catherine still devastated by the death of her friends.
I wondered if she had cried that way when Margaret had been killed and left in a Dumpster, wondered if that tragedy had ripped out her heart, compelled her to take me and raise me as her own.
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