Listening in Vain for Ninjas
explosives placed inside- exposing a great deal more of her breast than she had intended
- may have picked up a knife
- “You should hire one.”
- suck it in
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Listening in vain for ninjas, I thought about the explosives placed inside some of the rolls of cash Tessa had run off with. The thought of her blowing up was troubling, but not as troubling as the thought of her discovering what was hidden in the remaining rolls of cash.
I was there the day John’s sister Lyudmila made all of those tight, fancy cash bundles. She’d been a sushi chef before John dragged her into his life of danger. She had a real flair for creating dramatic presentations of both raw fish and cold hard cash. Lyudmila made a show of tucking one of the wads of currency, done up like an ebi nigiri, into her bra. Her smile turned into a blush as she realized she was exposing a great deal more of her breast than she had intended.
Looking back I don’t think it was an accident. That was the night Lyudmila and I became lovers, the night Tessa and I had our first fight. I think John put Lyudmila up to it. He’d always had his eye on Tessa.
Thoughts of irate sushi chefs and their unhinged brothers made me think that Tessa may have picked up a knife before she left the movie set. The craft services table was littered with cutlery. If she had armed herself I could fear less for her safety and more for my own.
Alert for John’s return, or attacking ninjas, or Tessa waiting in ambush, I scuffled my way across the sand, following Tessa’s footprints.
“Hey,” called a female voice. “Are you the personal trainer?”
I turned and saw a gorgeous woman in a bikini coming out of one of the dressing trailers. She took one look at me and said, “I guess not.” She wrinkled her nose. “You should hire one.” Her blue eyes danced over my body in my soaking wet clothes. “In the meantime, suck it in.”
Ouch.
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