Simeon's Promise II by Lewis Kelley

Author:Lewis Kelley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lewis Kelley
Published: 2023-04-04T00:00:00+00:00

Sakeda reclined in a chair staring out at crystal water. There was no news of Carver. That aggravated him. Still, he had an advantage. The man and his accomplices hadn’t completed what they came for. They would surface. Eventually he would catch up to the only man to thwart him more than once. The assassin grimaced. He would take the fee but it was meaningless. Jiro Tanaka—a mortal enemy from a long-ago past was connected to the American. That made the man’s looming fate sweeter. He thumbed the letter he carried in his pocket. In it he mocked Tanaka’s training—his inferior mind and the inept fighting skills passed to his protégé. He would rejoice when he finally mailed it to the prison where the gullible fool rotted. The final part of his humiliation of his old enemy would be the death of his brother—Ichiro—a particularly cruel undertaking he planned long ago. This time the smile that erupted on his face was genuine.

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Philipos wasn’t entirely deceptive. He did have a friend he wanted to talk to while the others spent time alone. It was no one’s business if that friend happened to be the person helping him solve the mystery that fell into his lap. The professor went out of the way not to make his unseen assistant a target. He called her only once from a public phone. The rest of the time he communicated via regular mail. His latest instructions were to deposit any useful information with another friend who ran a dilapidated hotel in the Omonia neighborhood of Athens. He was there now.

Philipos didn’t waste time chatting. Thanking his contact, he took the package left for him and walked out. He went straight to a tattered neighborhood shop. Settling into a space in back, he checked his surroundings then opened the first of the eight by eleven envelopes he held. He read for twenty minutes, glancing up every few seconds to scan for danger then repeated the action with the second of the packets. Finished, his next move was to go outside and walk briskly back to his hotel. Twice he had to cross the street to avoid a gaggle of junkies but he made it to the hotel without incident. Once inside with the door locked he took out his cell and scrolled through his contacts. When Eleuterio’s name appeared, he pressed send.

“Philipos,” the lawyer answered.

“I have what we need.”

“Where are you?”

“Omonia.”

“Stay off the street until I get there. I need thirty minutes. Give me the address when I call back to let you know you should come out. Don’t get murdered in the meantime.”

Eleuterio’s car was easily spotted; so luxurious a machine would be conspicuous even in the nicest of Athens neighborhoods. Here in what was once the center of Athens but had deteriorated into a hub of drug activity, graffiti, and crime, it stuck out like a beacon.

Philipos hustled toward the approaching vehicle and reached for the door. He got in before the rugged looking

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