"Lee Edgar - The Andromeda Trial" - читать интересную книгу автора (Edgar Lee)

Cassi looked down at the scrap of virtually transparent material which seemed no
bigger than a handkerchief, and then grabbed her husband’s arm. ‘Come on, let’s go
before you change your mind and decide to stay at home with the babysitter.’
‘What about your letter?’ reminded Maggie.
Mike frowned. They normally had everything addressed to the office in Europoort.
‘Letter?’
Cassi inserted a long finger into the top of the envelope and slit it neatly open. It
contained a single sheet of paper. Mike watched as Cassi’s face went white and then
snatched the paper from her hand as she slowly sat down. It read: “ SUCH LOVELY
CHILDREN. IT WOULD BE A SHAME IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO THEM.”
 Tears were in her eyes as Mike punched numbers into his cellfone.
‘Stan? I need your help. Can you come over? Better bring Terry.’
In twenty minutes a second helicopter stood beside the first, and the kitchen-diner
was crowded as Cassi supped tea from a mug.
‘Don’t worry,’ a balding man was saying to her husband. ‘Terry and I will take care
of everything. You just go off and enjoy yourselves.’
Terry Green, an athletic young officer with well-developed muscles and the speed to
use them well, was eyeing up the babysitter with serious interest. Mike leaned over and
whispered in Stan’s ear. ‘Don’t let her put her nightie on yet or you’ll get no sense
at all out of Terry.’
Stan’s eyebrows rose. ‘Like that, eh?’ He laughed. ‘Sometimes I wish I was young
again.’
‘Call me if you need me back in a hurry.’
‘Taking this seriously?’
‘Until General Phillips is behind bars for good, I’m taking no chances. Cassi and I
are among very few witnesses that he arranged the deaths of a lot of people, and he has
always fulfiled his threats to date.’
‘And you believe he will carry them out now?’
‘I believe he will try.’
Cassi took a lot of persuading to leave the children but Mike was adamant that his
two armed security officers were more than capable of looking after a teenage girl and
two children. The helicopter rose into the air and then turned south-west, following
the coast for while before turning inland.
‘Where are we going?’ asked a subdued Cassi.
‘Where do you think? Where we had our very first meal together.’
‘Paris?’
He nodded as the autoroute appeared beneath them and the sun began to lower away to
their right.
‘Happy?’ he ventured.
‘Worried,’ she replied.
Mike laughed as he veered up and over power cables close to Rove. ‘Stan is an old
hand at this kind of thing. He might look past his sell-by date, but he has the
instincts of a wily old fox. Also, Terry is chief instructor at the gun club as well as
Regional Weight-Lifting Champion. Between them, they won’t let anything happen to the
kids. Not only that, the Base Security Office is within three minutes flight. They are
safe.’
Cassi visibly relaxed and pushed her hair back from her face. ‘Okay, I’m being
paranoid. I just can’t forget that they killed Tara’s baby.’
‘The people who most likely did that died at Andromeda, you know that. It was you who
killed them.’