Broken Dolls: An Urban Fantasy (The Telepathic Clans Saga Book 3) by BR Kingsolver

Author:BR Kingsolver
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2013-09-26T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

I didn’t sleep well. So much of what Medici had said sounded a bit wrong. I knew that O’Donnell wasn’t cooperating with Interpol. And the last I heard, O’Donnell wasn’t on very good terms with the Italian Clans other than Federicci. That situation went back to the 1950s.

It seemed a stretch that the same source inside O’Donnell was sharing information with both the traffickers and Interpol. So there were multiple leaks, or Medici had sources inside the traffickers, or ...

Another coincidence was meeting Lorenzo at that club. I doubted that he hung out there regularly and just happened to bump into me. Since no one but me knew about the list I’d pulled from Carpenter’s mind, the obvious conclusion was that I was being followed. Why would Lorenzo be following me?

In my business, coincidences are always viewed with skepticism. Medici might spend a lot of time at that club, and our meeting was just serendipity. If so, he was very well prepared for serendipity. I checked out the hotel where we were to meet on the internet. It seemed respectable, an international chain. He’d given me a room number. Maybe Interpol kept the room all the time.

Who was the man who could get me inside? One of the traffickers? An international playboy known to the establishment?

I hoped the hotel wouldn’t be too upset if I blew the place up getting out. I expected some kind of ambush, and I resolved that I wouldn’t be gentle if it happened.

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I arrived at the hotel half an hour early and thoroughly cased the place. I checked with Grandmum, and she sent me a thought package of everything she could gather on Lorenzo di Medici. The details brought a smile to my face. I had the numbers and passcodes to three of his accounts.

She hadn’t found any deposits from known Gordon or von Ebersberg sources, but the balances in two of the accounts were eye popping. If the boy turned out to be clean, I might let him show me a good time. He seemed to like what he saw the night before.

The tale about him working for Interpol was true, and Medici was officially neutral. But just as the German Clans had backed Hitler, so had Medici backed Mussolini. If not for the Irish Clans, Medici and its allies would control all of Italy, and a large chunk of the rest of Europe. Grandmum didn’t trust him.

I didn’t bother to contact Lord O’Byrne. He had been my mentor in Distance Communication. If he had something for me, he’d contact me. He knew my timetable.

And just as I was walking into the hotel lobby, he sent me a spear thread.

*Rhiannon. I haven’t been able to find out much about Lorenzo, but he does work for Interpol. He’s a section chief in their Human Trafficking Division, and well respected. But we’ve never considered Medici as friends. Be careful, and if you need a safe house, contact my son Brian at the O’Byrne offices in Paris.

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