Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation by Stuart Gibbs

Author:Stuart Gibbs [Gibbs, Stuart]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781534424760
Google: uk6qDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B07LB9FFSP
Goodreads: 43232919
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2019-09-16T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-THREE

The scrap of paper with Einstein’s clue on it was in Dante’s pocket. Instead of handing it over, Dante looked at Alexei and said, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Alexei nodded to Fez, who was holding Dante on the floor with Hans. Fez smiled in a way that made Charlie cringe; she knew from Fez’s file that he was a psycho who liked causing pain.

Fez got to his feet and kicked Dante in the stomach so hard it made Dante curl into a ball.

Charlie winced just watching it, knowing it had to have been even more painful than Dante was letting on. Vladimir, the one holding the gun to her head, tightened his grip on her.

“Let’s try this again,” Alexei said. “Hand over the equation.”

“I still don’t know what you mean,” Dante said.

Alexei grinned, like he had been hoping things might come to this. “You want to be tough? Maybe this will jog your memory.” He nodded to Oleg, the terrorist who was holding Milana.

Oleg placed the barrel of his gun in Milana’s mouth.

“All right!” Dante shouted. “Don’t hurt her! Pandora is in my pocket!”

Alexei signaled Oleg to wait, then nodded to Fez, who knelt by Dante’s side and rifled through his pockets.

Charlie was terrified. Everything had gone so wrong so fast. She could feel panic start to grip her, the same way it had back in the parking lot at the university, when one of the Furies had been shooting at her. So she willed herself to remain calm, the same way she had then. She breathed deeply and focused on her surroundings, trying to piece together what had happened, looking for anything that would give her an edge over the Furies.

She cased the room. It had once been a living room, but the CIA had modified it into a workspace. It was sterile and official in design. Where a real home would have had couches and maybe a coffee table, here the walls were ringed with desks, each with a computer perched atop it.

The safe house was narrow. The room they were in took up the entire front of the building, with a large window onto the street. There was only one exit besides the door Charlie had just come through. An open arch led back toward the rear of the house. Charlie could see a hallway beyond Alexei, leading back toward what was probably the kitchen, and a staircase leading upstairs.

Charlie couldn’t see any sign of Rats, which she feared was probably bad news for Rats.

Somehow, the Furies had known about the safe house. So they had raced here from the botanical gardens and gotten the jump on the CIA. There had been no sign of forced entry, so they must have known the entry codes. Charlie assumed they hadn’t broken in through a back door, because the safe house would have been alarmed; Rats would have certainly been alerted to something like that.

Fez gave a cry of triumph as he discovered Einstein’s clue in Dante’s pocket.

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