Sleeper: The Seven Sequels by Eric Walters

Author:Eric Walters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, JUV001000, JUV028000, JUV030050
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2014-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

“If anybody has any question about you being good enough for him, they obviously don’t know you.”

“That is such a kind thing to say,” she said. She offered another one of those wonderful smiles, and I felt my feet sort of melt.

It was kind, and although I meant it, I was surprised that I’d blurted it out.

“But to be honest, I’ve been wondering myself if I’m up to such standards,” she said.

“His standards or somebody else’s standards?”

“Mostly others’,” she said.

“Mostly? If he isn’t sure you’re good enough for him, then he’s a bigger git than your cousin. So he’s famous…and rich?”

“Very rich and very famous.”

“And hounded by paparazzi?”

“Everywhere he goes.”

“So is that going to be a problem for your date on New Year’s Eve?”

“Not a problem, but a solution. That’s our official coming-out party. After that, everybody will know we’re dating.”

“Then I guess congratulations are in order,” I said. This time I didn’t mean it, or at least didn’t feel it.

“Thank you.”

I changed lanes again and watched in my rearview as the car three back from us shadowed my moves—again. It wasn’t a BMW or even black, but it did seem to be following us. A third tail or more coincidence? I wasn’t even going to mention it.

“Could I see those papers again?” Charlie asked.

“Of course.”

“I’m being careful. I wouldn’t want to tickle us off into a ditch.” Once again she reached into my jacket pocket, and once I again I flushed in response. She removed the papers, unfolded the sheets and began studying them.

“There’s something about these numbers that’s been troubling me,” she said.

“The whole thing is just getting more troubling and more confusing. It seems like the more I find out, the less I know.”

“But the numbers…something is so familiar about them. There must be a pattern of some sort that twigs a solution.”

“The only pattern I can see is that while each of them is broken into different combinations, each line is ten numbers long,” I said.

“Like a phone number.”

“It can’t be that simple…can it?”

“I know one way to find out for certain.”

She pulled out her phone, put it on speaker so I could listen, and began dialing. With the first number, a recorded mechanical voice came on: “We’re sorry; your call cannot be completed as dialed. Please check the number and dial again. This is a recording.”

“So much for that theory.”

“Lots of numbers are disconnected,” Charlie said.

She tried the second and then the third number, with the same result—or lack of result.

“I still think there’s something here if only I could…” She started laughing. “So simple and so silly.”

She began dialing again. I expected the same recording to come on, but it didn’t. This time, she got a ring.

“They were backward!” she exclaimed. “I recognized the area code for London as the last two digits on two of the numbers and—”

“Hello,” a voice said on the other end of the phone. “Hello?” The voice was male, with an English accent, and he sounded older.

“Say something,” Charlie mouthed.

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