Even winning a karate match couldn't put Hashimoto in a good mood this morning. He was wasting time in Los Angeles, accomplishing nothing because Dr. Steinbrenner had a stroke and the Miller women were not responding to his calls.
Sato bathed in a steaming tub of water. His assistant came in the vaporous bathroom and handed Sato a towel, then gave him pictures of the Miller women. He clicked his tongue, musing over the photograph of Eve savagely biting a man in the neck.
He had been searching for some kind of weakness that he could use to his advantage. As he shuffled through the pictures he saw several of the women laughing together; a brunette and a redhead. The sisters were obviously very close. If he could separate them he might be able to exert some control. The dark woman was obviously ferocious and very strong.
The pictures he contemplated that had been taken the next day, showed both women with identical coiffures in the exact same shade of blond. They were obviously identical twins. After he got them to Japan and they understood his enormous influence and wealth, he would let the one who did not possess a computer understand what an advantage it would be to become mistress of a powerful man such as himself.
Sato lolled in the bathtub and bade his assistant call Cedars Sinai hospital to inquire solicitously about Dr. Steinbrenner. The news was disheartening. The doctor was in stable condition but unable to communicate, which meant that Sato had no choice but to go to the meeting arranged by Alexander Steinbrenner. In the meantime he would try to use the day advantageously. He only had this one day to conspire behind the backs of the Steinbrenner brothers.