by J.R. Bowles
CHAPTER 44
Michael sat listening to music. It was getting close to eleven and he had stayed in all day.
He wished he had a drink but he didn't want to impair his mind. He needed to think clearly.
He had learned from Rudy that the girl Jackie had been staying with two guys here in the hotel. Rudy had said one of them was a mixed oriental so it must be Zolar. His detectives had kept up with them. It had taken several days to read the reports they had kept even while he had amnesia. Michael had paid the detective firm well in advance and often went for years without contacting them. He had always called them for information and they held it until they heard from him.
His little buddy Rudy had been more help that he had realized. He had actually enjoyed teasing the little fellow. He almost laughed out loud remembering how Rudy's eyes had widened when he paraded around in his underwear. Teased him and watched his mouth water and then cut him cold. He had enjoyed that immensely.
He sighed. Just over an hour until the next opening. He would go over and see John about eleven thirty. “Just sort of stopped by to see how you are John,” he would say. “After last night I was worried. Would have checked earlier today but he had some business to take care of that just couldn't be put off.”
Well that wasn't a lie. He had been on the phone most of the day. He had arranged reservations for all of them at the Hotel Roanoke and booked plane reservations for the morning of June thirtieth. By then they would be ready to go. They needed to be in Roanoke for the last center's opening. They had to get back to the source of energy.
No doubt about it they had to be there but he would be ready. He would watch John to see how John would choose and if he didn't choose correctly then he would have no choice but to kill him. He hoped he didn't have to kill his longtime friend but if he had to he wouldn’t have any choice. If John made the wrong choice then he would have to die.
He had arranged that today also. He would be ready and if John chose wrong, then and there he would kill him. It was going to be difficult and he himself may very well die.
Yes, he nodded to himself, he had the weapon. It was the only one that would kill John after the center opened.