Channeling Cleopatra by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Author:Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: reincarnation, channeling, egypt, gypsy shadow, channel, alexandria, cleopatra, elizabeth ann scarborough, soul transplant, genetic blending, cellular memory, forensic anthropology
Publisher: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

CHAPTER 13

"You didn't have to kill him," Gabriella told her idiot cousin. "He could have been a lot of help to us, he and Leda."

"He's not dead yet," Mo said. "Do you want what's left of him?"

"Of course. Bring him with us. Has he got the specimen?"

"Here it is," Mo said, reaching into Duke's shirt and pulling out the little titanium cylinder.

"Excellent. Very well, then, into the plane, quickly. The airfield will be crawling with rescue missions soon. The rest of you, return to the villa and check on your mothers. Send me a radio message at Ginia's. Coded, please."

Mo flew the plane while Gabriella played paramedic to Leda's father. Duke's rasping breathing reassured her that he still lived. She liked the crusty old devil, for although he was in some ways all of the things she despised about men, he was evidently not as bad as he appeared, having raised a daughter as independent and capable as Leda. He was also funny, and that went a long way with her, and he was genuinely brave, from what Leda had told her.

Gabriella had never intended that he be harmed, which was why she had set up the diversion herself. Damn Mo's careless driving, but she supposed he was rattled, as they all were, by the quake. He was a good pilot and the best hacker in Egypt, but as a terrorist, he made a better computer programmer.

The access she'd gained to the computer during her visits to the beluga had enabled him to hack in and monitor Leda's transmissions from his own machine back at the villa. He had intercepted all but that last message, the crucial one. It had been interrupted by the quake. But before that, they received and decoded Leda's E-mail to Chimera saying that Duke was bringing the specimen back to Nucore for Chimera, who would then use it on the client who had claimed Cleopatra. It was not a very subtle code. Leda had decided that most Egyptians wouldn't be able to understand pig Latin, but in fact, it had amused Gabriella back in her college days, and she was easily able to translate the message.

By now, Gabriella knew the Hubbard family well enough to know that if Leda's message said Duke would be flying from the airstrip in the next hour with the specimen, that was exactly what would happen. A mere earthquake was unlikely to stop either of them. But it did throw off the plans Gabriella had formed to meet Duke and the specimen and possibly persuade him to take her with him back to Kefalos.

At some point she could then have injected him with a fast-acting sedative and relieved him of the sample. Afterward, she had intended to leave him somewhere safe to sleep it off. Even now, she hoped he could still be saved. After all, nothing really incriminating had happened while he was conscious, and if he lived and they could be persuaded, he and Leda could be real assets to the movement.

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