The Artifact by Michelle Phillips

Author:Michelle Phillips [Phillips, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-01T22:00:00+00:00

He leaned forward menacingly “Cut the crap Doctor, who are you really working for?”

“No.. no one” she stuttered a little nervously wriggling in her seat a little.

“No-one? That’s a lie” he exclaimed blatantly “you have to be working for someone. Who? The Chavez government? Are they going to send the militia in to shut us down? Do you know what they do to illegal miners in this country?” he asked as he leaned behind him, picking up the shotgun David had sitting next to his seat, the same shotgun David had pointed to on their way in, claiming it was used for protection against deadly snakes. “They shoot us” he said with an evil gleam in his eye “execution style.”

“No.. no.. no” she cried flinching away from the Remington 870 shotgun. She saw Xavier out of the corner of her eye, boiling with anger at the shotgun being pointed directly at her.

“I saw this old fool coming and I thought, hey, what the hell, we can make a bit of money, maybe he has some relatives that will pay good money to have him back. That is after he has paid us for our services. And then you two turn up” … his eyes narrowed suspiciously again “Mr Captain America and his golden Wonder Woman, a doctor no less, and I get to wondering just what is it that you are really up too?”

“David?” asked her uncle politely. “What’s going on?”

David looked back at them, the usual stupid smile on his face. “Oh, this is Jose, he gets a bit paranoid.”

Xavier looked at Tasha with disbelief “Well can you tell him that we don’t work for the government?” said Xavier angrily.

David laughed “No, sorry, no can do.”

“What the hell is wrong with you people?” cried Tasha positively choleric. Xavier gave her a stern look, cautioning her with his eyes to keep quiet. She realised it could be a mistake to antagonise these people.

“We can pay you more money” stated her uncle. “This is what this is isn’t it? A shake down for more money?” He looked at Jose nervously, even he was worried now.

“Turns out you’re not such a fool as I thought, are you old man?” he said prodding the gun at his belly. Plus he didn’t mind taking that snarky little bitch down a notch with her hoity-toity manner and her holier than thou attitude. It was time to drop her a peg or two.

“Stop, please stop” she pleaded turning to Xavier “He can’t shoot that in here, can he?”

“It isn’t a pressurised cabin” said Xavier shaking his head like a demented bobble head.

“Listen to your boyfriend lovely, and don’t try anything stupid” said Jose snickering at her.

“Seeing you two, has now got me to wondering. I know you disappeared into the rainforest, all that crap about being a Doctor and you didn’t spend two minutes with the locals.” She realised that they had been watching them. Not hard to do she guessed. “And you” he said looking directly at Tasha, “Little Miss Pretty, you in particular have no business being in the jungle.

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