It was a risky move to try and find a way to look into the building. I could miss his exit and have to start all of this shit over again once I tracked him down.
There was something nagging me in the back of my head that I needed to find out what was inside that building. I’d been in the game long enough to know that I had to listen to that gut feeling.
“If I were a rich, entitled, heroin supplier, where would I buy a place?” I thought out loud not too quietly as my feet carried me up the block.
The top floor.
I mean, I could have been wrong, but it didn’t feel like I was.
I imagined that sort of place had a private elevator or you at least had to have a special key card to access the top floors. No way I was walking in there and getting access.
So it looked like it would be one of the surrounding buildings, if I could even do that much. Most of these places all looked the same. I doubted I’d be able to find one where I could just walk in and make my way up to the roof.
My eyes scanned the buildings. One of them had a sign with balloons attached to it sitting on the sidewalk right outside the front door.
Open House.
Was this my lucky day? It kind of felt like it was.
I was wearing a suit so I didn’t hesitate to walk in the unlocked front door knowing I’d fit right in.
“Can I help you, sir?” the guard in the front lobby asked me right away.
“I was hoping to check out the open house.” I tucked my hand in my pocket casually which I knew would set him at ease.
It worked, and with a smile, he let me onto the elevator and hit the eleventh floor for me. It wasn’t the top but hey, I’d take what I could get right now.
The real estate lady latched onto me the moment I walked through the door. I would have guessed she could smell my money right away.
It worked for me.
I let her shamelessly bat her eyes at me and run her fingers over my arm as I asked her what seemed like innocent questions. This whole thing was taking me a bit longer than I’d hoped but I couldn’t do a damn thing about it.
The most important thing I got out of her was that this floor wasn’t allowed roof access, but she did flash me a key card letting me know that she had one available that did.
And the moment her back was turned, I swiped that sweet little card.
“I’ll let you help them. Mind if I look around?” I said once I noticed a couple walk through the door. Thank fuck for that, I was having a hard time shaking her.
“Sure, I’m here if youneed anything.”
No, I didn’t miss the seductive way she said that.
I forced a smile and once she walked away to show the couple the kitchen, I smoothly darted out the door.
On the roof, I studied the building that seemed a little too close. I liked my privacy and if I was going to pay out the ass for a place, I didn’t want to be able to tell what my neighbor was eating for dinner.
In fact…
I stopped myself right there.
I was no Tom Cruise. I shouldn’t have even been contemplating if I could jump to the next roof or not.
That would be monumentally stupid.
Or would it be?
I shook away the ridiculous idea and searched the windows across the way. Most of the curtains were wide open and I could clearly see into what appeared to be an office. Two men were talking, one of them was my target, the other I would have guessed as the man that had followed behind him. He looked more like a bodyguard than anything and I wondered why I hadn’t seen him before.
