The Eye of Moloch by Glenn Beck

Author:Glenn Beck
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Published: 2013-06-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

By their second cup of coffee he’d composed and deleted several messages; none of them felt quite right. Though she was an ace at deception herself, Molly Ross was also a very difficult person to lie to.

“Clear out your mind for a minute,” Virginia said. “Just talk to her. Like I said, just relax and communicate. Think about your relationship.”

“I wish I had more to think about. We didn’t have much of a chance to get to know one another. There wasn’t a lot of time involved, not in the way you’d normally think of a relationship.”

“But you seem to have gotten so close.”

“I got close. I don’t know, maybe she did, too.”

“What did you talk about while you were together?”

“I spent most of my time saying stupid things, if I remember correctly. And I guess a lot of the things she told me weren’t true.”

“And yet you say that you trust her.”

“I know, it doesn’t seem to make sense. She tricked me, it was as simple as that in the beginning, but I don’t blame her. Whatever I got from them I deserved; that’s how I see it. What they were trying to do in those few days was better than anything I’d ever done with my whole life. Can you understand that?”

“I can.” She sat back, considering. “Let’s keep this simple.” She leaned over him and clicked open a new message. “You’re just trying to open a line of communication. We need to break through the clutter and establish that it’s really you who’s writing to her. Ideally it should be something that only the two of you would know about.”

He thought for a moment, and nodded as he began typing. “I think I’ve got something like that.”

The subject line he wrote was As a fellow oenophilist, let me B Frank.

“What’s that word mean?” Virginia asked, pointing it out on the screen.

“Oenophilist. It’s a wine word, and I only knew it because I was a spelling-bee geek. It was in a crossword puzzle we were doing in my apartment.”

“And B Frank, as in . . .”

“As in Barney Frank. That’s from a story I told her the night before.”

“When you slept together.”

“Right, when we literally slept together. She woke up at one point, and then she woke me up and asked me to help her get back to sleep. I asked her how I was supposed to do that, and she wanted me to tell her a story.”

“That sounds like something she’d remember.”

“She was very interested in anything about my father,” Noah said, “so I told her one of his tall tales. It’s the only kind of a bedtime story I ever got from him as a kid. No dragons or knights in shining armor, it was always about his work, and the one I told her involved Barney Frank.”

“Did it work?”

“Like a charm.” He cracked his knuckles. “Let me finish this up. You said to keep it simple, right?”

In the body of the message he typed a single line.

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