The Gods of Laki by Chris Angus

Author:Chris Angus
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yucca Publishing
Published: 2015-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Shelby Graham sat in the poolroom of the Reykjavik research facility waiting for his briefing on their team’s latest medical discoveries. His thoughts turned inevitably to Sam. He was worried about her. Things were heating up since the earthquake, and he had no idea where she was. He hoped Ryan was with her at least.

He felt isolated here. Having entered the country as inconspicuously as possible, at least until that annoying Wall Street Journal reporter had showed up, he was now as uncertain about what to do as he’d ever been in his long and successful career. Uncertainty was a new feeling for the senator.

The idea of any sort of harm coming to Sam was something he’d feared with a sense of palpable alarm ever since he’d first held her as a baby. Nothing had ever overcome that feeling. Now, however, he was deeply troubled. For he was committed to . . . fascinated by . . . the idea of an extended life span.

He had a lot more he wanted to do in this world. He wasn’t ready to leave it, the more so since his own death would essentially mean the loss of Sam. He wanted to be around to watch her and to oversee her progress in life. The rift that had come between them so many years ago had left him reeling, as Sam left for Europe and her new life. Not to have her in his life was inconceivable. He was convinced that eventually she’d come to see things more clearly, and he fully intended to be around when that happened.

He felt trapped by events. He couldn’t slip out of the country now. The earthquakes had placed Iceland at the center of the world stage. Reporters were flowing into the small island nation to report on what was happening. He’d be spotted in a moment if he appeared anywhere in public. Indeed, Charlie Finlay, his chief of staff, had called repeatedly, warning him to keep a low profile. The story that he was on vacation was beginning to strain credulity at home after he missed two important roll call votes.

Ali Akbari entered along with their chief chemist, a worried-looking man in a white coat.

“Tell him what you told me,” Akbari said without preamble.

“A man broke into the lab and held me at gunpoint. He wanted to know what we were doing here.”

Graham’s eyes went wide. “What did you tell him?”

“Anything he wanted to know,” the man answered tartly. “I was staring at a loaded gun.”

“Can you describe this man?”

Graham listened to the description with growing alarm. There was no question it had been Ryan Baldwin.

“What do we do now?” he asked Akbari.

The oil minister shrugged. “We continue our investigations, of course.” He looked at the chemist. “You told this man about the fungus?”

“Yes. He saw the vats. I told him what we thought it was, along with my own speculations about the substance.”

“Which are?” asked Graham.

“My personal belief . . . theory . . .

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