Iris Johansen - Stalemate by Johansen Iris

Author:Johansen, Iris [Johansen, Iris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780553586541
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2007-12-25T05:00:00+00:00

Stalemate – Eve Duncan 07

Page 112 of 219

"I'm okay." She passed him and went through the front door. It was almost dark but there were lanterns everywhere and she caught sight of Montalvo almost immediately. He was coming down the steps from the rampart talking to someone behind him.

"Montalvo."

He smiled as he turned to look at her. "Ah, you've come to bid me good-bye. Do you have a favor to give me as I ride into battle?"

"No. That's not why I came."

His smile faded and he gave a sigh. "I was afraid of this. I was hoping that you were too wounded and light-headed to react in the most characteristic manner for you. Evidently my hopes were to no avail."

"I'm going with you.”

“Not possible."

"I'm going with you."

"Eve, we're moving fast and you'd get in our way."

"I'm not saying I want you to give me a gun and let me go after that bastard Diaz. I'm not stupid.

I leave the fighting to those who are trained to do it. But I'm going to be there when you dig up that skull."

"No!" Soldono was standing behind her. "Eve, this is foolish. You'll get yourself killed. Why would you insist on going?"

"It's a matter of trust." Montalvo's tone was mocking. "The trust she does not have in me. Isn't that correct, Eve?"

"Of course it's correct. You spun me a fine tale of a lost love and a monster who sits in his castle like a fat gargoyle and smears his poison on everything he touches. What if you're lying? What if you have this skull hidden away somewhere and you take your men out and come back a few hours later with the skull? Only maybe it's not your wife's skull. I've been lied to before. Maybe the reconstruction is to be of someone else. Or maybe this body is buried somewhere else other than Diaz's territory and I'm violating a grave. How do I know?”

“A matter of trust," he said. "Catch-22."

"I won't do that reconstruction unless I'm at least marginally certain that you've been telling me the truth."

"How marginally?"

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