The Mayan Codex

2.15.’

‘Are you intending to head straight to the caravan?’

‘Yes. Do you have you a better plan?’

‘No. But I dearly wish we had a weapon of some sort. That hermaphrodite one. Aldinach. He struck me as particularly sinister. He was all set to skewer you back at Ek Balam.’

‘He wouldn’t have stopped with me, Calque. He had you in his sights too.’

‘Yes. But somehow knowing you were for it first was very comforting to me.’

Sabir burst out laughing. He let up a little on the accelerator.

This had been Calque’s plan all along, and he let out a small sigh of gratification. Dying in a car accident on the Paris peripherique had never been one of his ambitions. ‘I still can’t believe that Lamia intends to harm Yola and her child. We can’t have misread her to that extent.’

‘Maybe not. Maybe we simply misunderstood her motives right from the start, and piled error onto error? My father always told me that one isn’t the sum of one’s past actions.’

‘But we haven’t misunderstood the other two. They mean Yola harm, and we have to stop them.’

‘Whatever it takes?’

‘Whatever it takes.’