Aztec Gold (Alicia Myles Book 1) by Leadbeater David

Author:Leadbeater, David [Leadbeater, David]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2014-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

NINETEEN

Alicia heard the commotion begin sometime after midnight. The four bikers had gathered their motorcycles in a front-facing half circle and lay with their backs to a solid brick wall. Feigning sleep for over an hour now, and lying with her head positioned so she could see under the bikes, Alicia was relieved when the militia began to show their true colors. It put an end to all the dicking around.

She nudged the others with her foot but they were already preparing. As Pitts approached she eased a concealed blade from the small of her back to the side.

“Did you know about this? Is this you?”

Alicia rose into a melee. Pitts strode into their makeshift refuge, face and neck an unsightly shade of fire-truck red. The rifle he carried swayed carefully between them.

A swarm of angry militia men backed him up. Alicia quickly counted over thirty eager guns, at least half of them being brandished under the heavy influence of alcohol.

“What the hell are you talking about?”

“You!” Pitts ignored her and spat his words straight at Lex. “Is this you?”

Lex shrugged. “Is what me?”

Alicia moved to within striking distance. Pitts didn’t notice. He fired a shot between Lex’s feet that kicked up a swirl of dirt. Alicia would have pounced then, but knew to do so now was suicide. They had to find a way to thin the herd.

“Lights were seen out by the old stream. We have trespassers.”

Lex spread his arms. “It’s just us, man.”

Pitts waved his rifle. “Cover them.”

His men spread out to all sides, weapons raised and well apart. Alicia had just seen her problem grow existentially.

“You’re coming with us,” Pitts growled.

“With you?” Alicia repeated. “Where the hell are you going?”

“Gonna smoke us some intruders,” Pitts said. “Bastards are about to wish they’d never been born.”

*

Crouch was speechless, rocking from side to side on his knees, flashlight wavering ahead. Caitlyn dropped to his side, her own vision stunned into stillness. By the time Cruz, Healey and Russo joined them Crouch was finally able to speak.

“In all my years I have never seen anything like this. Never.”

The small cave revealed by the light of the flashlight was full of gold cladding. It was attached to the walls, stacked high on the floor, leaning against all four sides. Where it had fallen from its original perch it appeared tarnished, spoiled by layers of dust, but even then nothing could prepare the treasure hunters for the true measure of what they’d found.

“So this is all the gold they stripped off the walls?” Russo asked in his quietest tone ever. “Must have been quite a city.”

“Greatest of its time,” Crouch said. “Destroyed by greedy men that coveted what they did not have.”

Caitlyn sighed. “And so it goes.”

Healey walked forward, approaching the entrance to the gold room. “It’s solid gold, not too thick, but still—entire planks of the stuff. One thing’s for sure, we can’t hump it out of here.”

Crouch squeezed past him, basking in the glory of the find. With the

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