Dr. Knox by Peter Spiegelman

Author:Peter Spiegelman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2016-07-12T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 29

I rode shotgun in the black Escalade that Sutter had conjured from somewhere, but I still had a hard time following the twists and turns and loop-backs he drove from the clinic to the house in El Segundo. Elena and Shelly were quiet in the back seats, as they had been since Lucho had doused the alley lights and we’d taken them out the back door. Their faces were pale against the black leather upholstery, and they both grimaced when we went over bumps.

The house was a tidy stucco ranch, sherbet pink in the Escalade’s headlights, with white trim and a lawn like a swatch of green suede. The furnishings were simple and bright—fresh from the IKEA box—and the floors were shiny oak. The smells of paint and varnish still lingered. Sutter moved from window to window, lowering shades.

“New tenants come in a couple of weeks,” he said, “so you’re good till then.”

Shelly eased herself carefully into an armchair. “Nice,” she said, looking around. “Clean. What do you get for a place like this?”

“Thirty-seven hundred a month. Why—you in the market?”

“Sure,” Shelly said, smiling. “Siggy’s monkeys have probably moved into my old place by now, so I can’t go back there. This is a little out of my way, though. Got anything downtown?” Sutter smiled back and shook his head.

I helped Elena to the sofa, got her feet onto the coffee table, and put the Pleur-evac on the floor by her side. Her eyes roamed around the room, settled on Sutter, and narrowed. “We are close to the airport?” she said.

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