The Couple in Cabin 2124: A Patricia Fisher Mystery (Cruise Mysteries) by Steve Higgs

Author:Steve Higgs [higgs, steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-04T16:00:00+00:00

2124

In seconds, we were all in the car and it was burning rubber, fishtailing away as more bullets hit its back end. My door wasn’t even shut and there were seven of us in a sedan made for five, but we made the next junction and held on to anything we could as Hideki two-wheeled it around the corner.

As he joined traffic flowing on a two-lane highway, Rick and Akamu fist-bumped and started cackling with laughter. ‘That was friggin’ great,’ Rick snorted between laughs.

Akamu high-fived him. ‘I feel like I’m twenty-five again. Man, I miss getting shot at.’

‘Did you see their faces? Those crazy gangbangers, they got beaten by two old men, a butler, and an English lady. They’ll never live it down.’ Rick could barely get the words out he was laughing so hard.

‘What about me?’ asked Charlie.

Rick stared at him. ‘What about you?’

‘I was there too. You said they got beaten by two old men, a butler, and an English lady. What about me?’

Rick wiped the tears from his eyes as the mirth began to subside. ‘I don’t think running away counts for much. But you tell yourself you played a part if you want to.’

Charlie harrumphed but he couldn’t go anywhere or do anything. Barbie had swung out of the way to let Jermaine get in the front and then climbed back in to sit on his lap which left Rick, Akamu, Charlie and me stuffed into the back seat. We were all kind of sitting on top of each other and it was getting hot.

I repeated my earlier question. Tapping Barbie on the arm to get her attention. ‘How did you find us?’

Barbie reached out to place a slender hand on Hideki’s shoulder. ‘It was all him. He spotted Zanooza thugs outside the Aurelia and saw them set off tailing the coaches. He went to the security but they wouldn’t listen to him. He kicked up quite a fuss and they called the police to arrest him, but he insisted they call for me because I could explain everything. That took a while, of course, so by the time I got outside and convinced the police to release him, the coaches were miles away. Even breaking the speed limits, when we got to Mount Fuji you were gone but so was one of the coaches and I remembered seeing it on the other side of the road, whizzing along with no one on board it. Hideki drove back here, and we searched the streets hoping to find some sign of you. He knows which areas are Zanooza territory so when we found the coach, we knew we were in the right place. Then I spotted Jermaine taking Rick and Akamu for a ride on the rickshaw and you know the rest.’

‘What did those guys want anyway?’ Akamu asked, though I could barely see his face with the press of bodies between us.

‘The Zanooza boss wants something called a lion’s head. It must be the thing that Riku Takahashi took and what they were going to kill him for.

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