Chameleon Uncovered (Chameleon Assassin Series Book 2) by BR Kingsolver

Author:BR Kingsolver [Kingsolver, BR]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-06T17:00:00+00:00

Jess stuck her head into my office the next morning.

“A woman says she has an appointment with you.”

“Yes. Thanks, Jess. Where is she?”

“At the front desk.”

I walked out to the entrance and found Carly and a very tall man in his fifties. They both looked very nervous. I signed them in with security and led them back to the conference room I’d converted into my office.

When I said the man was very tall, I meant he was a head taller than I was and didn’t outweigh me by much. Skeletal would be an apt description. His hair was receding and graying, and his face was lined and weathered.

I ushered them into the office and found that Mike had made tea for us using the electric teapot Dad bought when he was working with me.

We all sat down at the table and I said, “Okay. What’s so urgent that you tried to kidnap me last night?”

“We weren’t trying to kidnap you,” Carly said with a pouting set to her mouth.

“Turning an electrogenic loose on me wasn’t very friendly.”

She looked down at the table and hunched her shoulders. “That wasn’t my idea.”

“Okay.” I waited while the silence grew uncomfortable.

“I saw you,” Carly said, “and I didn’t know how to find you, so I had to talk to you before you got away and I lost you again.”

“Well, here’s your chance.”

“You’re a mutant,” she blurted out, “but you’re inside the corporations.”

Mike chuckled.

“Well, you’re half right,” I said. “But suppose that’s true. So what? There are a lot of muties working for the corps.”

“But you don’t work for them.”

I shook my head. “You’re confusing me.”

“We need you.” The tone in her voice reminded me of Glenda whining that something wasn’t fair.

I turned to her companion. Neither he nor Carly had introduced him. “Do you need me?”

“She says we do.” He had a German accent, and his voice sounded like he was gargling gravel.

“And she’s that important?”

He looked at her, and I saw his face relax into what I read as love and compassion. The way my dad looked at me sometimes in his tender moments. Then he turned back to me.

“Yes.”

“Let’s start at the beginning,” Mike said. “Who are you, and who do you represent?”

The man turned his head, scanning the room.

“There aren’t any cameras or listening devices,” I said, pointing at piles of schematics on a side table. “Believe me, I would know.”

“I’m Carlotta Cardoza,” Carly said. “I represent a group called Democracy Now.”

“A terrorist organization that came close to killing me twice,” I said. “I’ll tell you, I’m not a fan of your methods. And you, sir?”

“Gustav Alscher.”

I saw Mike give him a sharp glance.

“I read your infonet site,” I said. “I didn’t see anything about you being a mutie organization.” Indeed, the whole thing had been a convoluted manifesto about democracy and socialism, and ranting about the corporations. I could have found the same ideas posted by dozens of people on the infonet.

“Mutants are worse than second-class citizens,” Carly said. “We need equality, and to get that, we need the corporations to pay attention to us.

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