Dark as Daylight Ch. 08

"From what I was just told, he was about to murder you for leaving him. That bruise on your cheek doesn't look like a love tap, and in the coming days it's going to become black and blue."

"It hurts like hell too."

"Do you need a dentist?"

"No, everything feels fine."

"You will never be left unguarded. One or 2 of my agents will be with you at all times. This is just a precaution to keep your husband away from you. I don't mind if he dies. I do mind if he kills you, and your children."

"I don't know what to say; I don't even know what to call you."

"I keep forgetting to do that. My name is Colonel Lucius Canyon. This dummy is Sergeant Paul Zachary. If I stand up, he's my shadow."

"Hello Colonel, hello shadow."

"Trust me Mrs. Watley, the Colonel has called me things much worse than that."

"Do you have a preference of the hotel in the area?"

"When we have guests we have them stay at the Hyatt on Michigan Avenue."

"Does your car have GPS?"

"That car could pilot the new spaceship."

"Do you mind if I drive?"

"No not all."

"You will follow me Paul."

"I thought you were going to let me pilot the spaceship."

"I just took the training wheels off your bicycle last week, and you want to pilot a spaceship?"

"I'm never going to have any fun with you."

"You can count on that."

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40 minutes later, they drove up to the Hyatt, gave the keys to the attendant. He asked Mrs. Watley to sit down with the children, while he took care of her reservation at the front desk.

The clerk looked at the shabby way he was dressed, and asked in a derisive tone of voice, "Do you have a reservation?"

"No I don't."

"In that case, I'm sorry were full."

"The presidential suite is full this week?"

The clerk kept his head down and kept writing, basically disregarding Lucius's question.

"Sir, please leave, the presidential suite is 24,000 dollars an evening."

"Did I ask you how much the suite costs, or did I ask you if it was available?"

"Yes sir, it is available."

"Look at me; if I wanted to I could buy this fucking hotel. As it is I only need a room for a friends' family for a few nights. If I receive one complaint from them, I'm going to take it out on you personally. Do you understand me?"

"Yes sir. Will you sign in here please?"

"Send all the bill him here. It will be paid in advance, whether we use the room or not. If you give it to anyone else, it is fraud."

"Yes Mister Zabo."

Lucius smiled as he took the keycards to the room and walked over to the Watley family.

Mrs. Watley everything is paid for, for the next week. You don't have to make any decisions about your life until then. We will give you all the updates on your husband that we have, and if he is still in residence at your home. We had been informed that he is going to Europe to receive some treatment for his HIV-AID's problem. There is no treatment in Europe that is not available here in the United States. I don't know why he's going there, but it may be for some other reason. If it's illegal, we will be watching him."

"Thank you Colonel, you have been most kind."

"Let us show you up to your room, and make sure everything is perfect."

As they entered the elevator, he placed the key card into the receptacle, because it was the only way to get to the private floor. There were only 3 rooms on this floor, the presidential suite, the governor's suite, and the mayor's suite. The president's suite took up a more than half floor.

Lucius opened the door, and the kids ran in. The screaming started immediately.

"Mommy look, we can see the water, with the boats on it."

When Alexa walked in she could not believe such opulence existed.

"The government is paying for this?"

"No, we have an agreement with all the major hotels. If their regular rooms are sold out, and we need to keep a family hidden, they will give us a suite they do not have sold for as many days as they can. For more than 20,000 dollars a night, this suite is often, but sometimes we get lucky and it's open. Go look around I have to make a phone call."

Lucius called New York. "Hello William, we caught a break today."

"Tell me about that my friend?"

"Our target blew a fuse at his wife while she was out front of the house trying to leave him. We were able to intercept her and feed her a story about her husband owing the US government a tremendous amount of tax dollars. While I was inspecting the trunk of the car I naturally found drugs, and told her the car would have to be taken apart and put back together which might take days. I asked her what hotel she'd like to stay at and that's why I'm calling you. Let Jemma and know where you are for the next week, because if she sees a bill from the Hyatt on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, and she didn't know where you were during that week, my friend, you are toast."

"Why am I getting a bill from the Hyatt on Michigan Avenue in Chicago?"

"Very simple, I signed your name, and put down your address. I could not very well announce to the world that I was here over this weekend, now could I"

"You conniving son of a gun."

"I, also, thought it was funny at the time. I wasn't going to tell you to see what happened if Jemma, but saw the bill first. I felt like a heel when I realized I might be attending your funeral. When him she found out the truth there would be no place on this earth for me to hide. She would find me and do very nasty things to me."

"Just wait until I tell her what you did. She'll still cut you up into little pieces just for the fun of it."

"I hope not; I still have work to do here. It should be completed by Monday night."

"I might be sending you and your friends on vacation Monday night."

"I could use a good vacation. Where might I be going?"

"Switzerland. You may be making a withdrawal from the Germeinshaft Bank."

"That's a German bank, some of my funds are in there."

"Well, during your discussions this weekend, you have to decide whether you are going to make withdrawals from one, two, or three of your German accounts. That will be totally up to the gardener you will be discussing it with this weekend. Please make sure he doesn't lie to you about the variety of fruit we need, otherwise we have to go back and replant another variety again. You know how I hate to do that."

"You know how I hate repetitious things William. Why don't I just withdraw all 3 of them at one time?"

"What happens if you're only looking for a fig tree. You find that you've, also destroy 2 lotus blossoms for no reason. How would you feel?"

"I would feel bad for about 1 second knowing that I had just saved the lives of 4 people sitting on top of the world, and possibly as many as 200 more sufficiently close to be in danger."

"You have my permission as always, if you find that necessary. I will continue updating you on any information that comes my way. Enjoy your vacation Lucius."

"I always loved yodeling William."

"You never could carry a tune."

"That's why I yodel."

"Go back to work Lucius. You're the best that is."

The End

Chapter 8

Dark As Daylight

by

Prolonged_Debut10

Note: I have finally received my diagnosis and it is not good. The nerves in my body are dying, and there is nothing they can do about it. I won't even try to spell the name of the disease because it is one of those orphans that attack 1 in 100,000,000 people. it makes me exceedingly tired, difficult if not impossible to walk, and my arms are always in pain. I will continue writing this story as long as I can, hopefully getting to the ending, but this will more than likely be my last one. I can't tell you how much I enjoy writing for you, and honestly for myself also. We will see how long this drags out and out functional I stay. Bob