Sanctuary Planet: Agents of ISIS, Book 4 by Stephen Goldin

Author:Stephen Goldin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: space opera, future, empire, space ships, spy adventure, space adventure, family dalembert
ISBN: 9781452402130
Publisher: Parsina Press
Published: 2017-05-27T00:00:00+00:00

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As he’d feared, she took it pretty hard.

He’d gone back to their apartment and waited for her to return. A brief hand signal indicated there was something he wanted to talk to her about privately, so they went out on one of their habitual walks. He told her first about finding Hasina and leaving the message, which thrilled her completely. While she was still on the peak of excitement, thinking about what their plans should be from this point, he told her what he’d seen after planting the message.

Eva was stunned. She sat down on a large nearby rock and stared blankly into empty air. “I can’t believe it,” she muttered, half to herself.

“I wouldn’t lie about a thing like that.”

She shook her head. “I know that. It’s just ... I know Pias. Or at least I thought I knew him. I’d never have believed him capable of anything like that. He has a few faults, but on the whole he seemed to prefer avoiding trouble. You don’t think there’s any chance someone else committed the murder and he just stumbled across Carnery’s body by accident, do you?”

Judah cleared his throat. “Well, I suppose it is possible. But in the back of a dark, harrow alley, where he had no business being in the first place? And after the look I saw on his face in Carnery’s cabin aboard ship? Maybe one chance in a billion, But those aren’t odds I’d care to bet on.”

Eva closed her eyes and bowed her head. Judah could tell she was fighting back a stream of tears. “Oy, you’re right. I knew it, but I had to ask the question.” She shook her head slowly.

“I knew from that first meal aboard ship something wasn’t kosher between Pias and Carnery. Pias’s tone was slightly off when he spoke about Carnery. Yet it seemed to be a one-sided thing. Carnery took no notice of him.”

She pounded her fist repeatedly against the rock on which she sat. “Oh Pias, why, why, why? Why did you have to do it? Why did it all have to be here and now? Why did things have to be the way they are?”

Judah stood beside her and put a hand on her shoulder. “I’m afraid I can’t give you any explanation.”

“I was twenty-eight last month, and still without any ‘prospects,’ as they say. I gave up thinking about marriage when I was seventeen. I like my freedom too much to get tied down to any one guy. For me there’s no such thing as ‘the guy.’ But Pias ...”

“Any woman can have a husband,” Judah said. “How many of them can save the tsaritsa as often as you have?”

Eva looked up, a watery smile on her face. She patted her partner’s hand. “You have the annoying habit, bubbe, of injecting business matters into the most intimate of conversations. I do intend to resume my dancing when we hang up our cloaks and daggers, and Pias already told me he dances like an arthritic hippo.

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