Azabu Getaway by Michael Pronko

Author:Michael Pronko
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Michael Pronko
Published: 2022-09-23T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

The men from the lobby led Patrick and the girls to the elevator and rode down with them from the fortieth floor. When they arrived at the ground floor, a dark blue six-seater SUV idled in the drop-off circle. The man in camel hair opened the door for them.

Patrick picked Jenna up and set her inside, and then picked Kiri up, tickling her as he put her into the seat. He buckled them in carefully. Patrick had a good idea what they wanted. He just hoped it was all they wanted.

The man held his hand out until Patrick realized he wanted his cellphone. He gave it to him. The other two men climbed in the back seat. The camel hair coat got in front telling the driver to lock the doors and drive. “Please keep your masks on until we arrive,” he advised.

Patrick leaned forward. “My girls haven’t had breakfast yet.”

The man turned around, frowning. “What do they like?”

Patrick turned to the girls. “What do you want to eat? These guys are going to buy us breakfast.”

“They don’t have pancakes?” Kiri asked.

“I don’t think so.” Patrick looked at Jenna.

“What about donuts?” Jenna smiled, pleased with her suggestion.

The man in front made a call.

“Poppa, why are the windows so dark in this car?” Kiri asked.

“It keeps out the sun.” Patrick tapped on the window. “You don’t want to get sunburned, do you?” That seemed to satisfy her and they rode the rest of the way in silence.

Patrick tried to keep an eye on passing landmarks, but the car veered into tangled streets with a blur of ramen places, print shops, pachinko parlors, Chinese and Indian joints, and clothing stores that could be in any part of the city. The dark windows removed all detail so each street was tinted the same. The SUV slowed to navigate narrow blocks of one-way streets before pulling into the entryway of a shabby building that just fit the vehicle’s width.

A guard came out from a small glass-fronted cubicle. One of the men in back got out and held the door open for Patrick and the girls. They stepped onto an oily circle of metal set into the concrete floor.

The driver pressed buttons on a control panel on the wall and a grinding of gears erupted behind the inner door. The door opened and a Ferris wheel mechanism rotated down. The driver eased the car onto the lift, got out, and sidled back to the panel to press a large red button that rolled the doors shut and the SUV rotated up and away.

The man in the camel hair coat waved them into a cramped concrete area with metal stairs and an elevator. Kiri and Jenna held hands. The elevator creaked down. Not everyone could fit in so Patrick and the girls got on with two of the men.

“What is this place?” Jenna whispered.

“Today’s workplace,” Patrick whispered like he was reading them a bedtime story.

The girls giggled. “It’s not like your office with the dragons and all the windows.

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