The Darkness in Dreams by Sue Wilder

Author:Sue Wilder [Wilder, Sue]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sue C. Smith
Published: 2018-03-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

Lexi finished her second cup coffee as she read the final document in the files. The Italians had been thorough, but they hadn’t traced Katerina’s movements back for more than a few weeks. Lexi didn’t need surveillance to track a person’s movements. Habitual patterns were not as random as people thought. Earth energies had a lot to do with how attractive or repulsive a location felt, and it wasn’t always the taste of the coffee that drew people to a certain cafe.

According to Marge, what people didn’t see had more influence on their actions than what they did see. Actually, it was what people felt and didn’t feel, but they’d been sitting on Lexi’s deck at the time, watching a pair of grown men and laughing hysterically about what people didn’t see. The idiots had been flirting with what turned out to be sneaker waves. Some people needed to get knocked on their asses before they realized their own stupidity.

Still, Lexi assumed the Italian warriors had loaded their own tracking software onto the laptop. They were good, not as skilled as Ethan, but talented enough Lexi began the first swift keystrokes that would lead her to Matthew’s secret backdoors.

An hour later, Lexi acknowledged that Katerina knew how to hide her presence from the cyber world. The girl never posted on social media, sent or received email, commented on her friend’s posts or did any electronic banking. And if she used a cell phone, it was encrypted.

But Lexi discovered the posting on social media from one of Katerina’s friends, about how thrilled Katerina was to be visiting Florence “because of a research grant.” Katerina’s godfather was identified as a scholar, with a particular interest in ancient European civilizations if an obscure book he’d written ten years ago was any proof. Lexi found it in an online archive through her old university, used a password and quickly scanned the contents.

Lexi followed another lead and discovered a brief announcement posted by the godfather’s academic institution: the professor had turned down a coveted research grant for health reasons and his goddaughter, Katerina Varga, had accepted in his stead. Kat had majored in computer science and ancient languages. One of her published papers had been on the lost Etruscan language. It was not an Indo-European language but based on the ancient Aegean languages with elements of Raetic, spoken in the Eastern Alps. Katerina had proposed using computer algorithms to cross-reference with known ancient dialects. The paper had been moderately received, with some skepticism. Multiple theories were argued as to the origin of the Etruscans since the Romans had obliterated almost all of Etruscan culture. Katerina had then been accepted into a doctoral program at her godfather’s institution, which she turned it down two months later to accept the research grant.

And there is was. Katrina had come to Florence to research the Etruscans.

Lexi felt energized. She gathered the hair at her nape and wrapped it into the knot for convenience. In skinny jeans and a

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