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Who was right?

He sensed so these events at the same time he was, like they were connected to the sanals,them on to some destination She would receive the code this way That’s what Ares had planned Had he programmed the case for this?

Seeing Kate had energized Dorian Her fear, her vulnerability It was the saain She had the research and information he needed And soon he would have it She just had to remember

But it wasn’t only what had happened It was some piece of information—a code that she would remember Ares had known that Dorian was close to Kate and she was close to re the code he needed He had timed it perfectly Soon, he would take her, and take the last secret, the thing she held most dear, and her defeat would be complete

CHAPTER 80

Somewhere near Malta

Mediterranean Sea

On the horizon, David saw the two larger islands of Malta come into view

In the last six hundred years, this tiny group of islands, which covered just one hundred twenty-two square ht-over place on the entire planet

During the Second World War, no place on Earth saw asper square foot as Malta The German and Italian air forces had leveled it, but the British had held strong

In soround, living in stone rooendary They had been used in Roman times to bury the dead, but they had kept countless Maltese residents alive during the carnage of the Second World War

Almost four hundred years before the Luftwaffe had unleashed hell on Malta, a different devil had appeared on their doorstep: the arnificent had brought his fleet of al nearly fifty thousand troops—the largest fighting force in the world at the time

The e of Malta, and it had changed the history of the world The siege was a clash of uniht An estimated one hundred thirty thousand cannonballs were fired at or from the island One in every three inhabitants of Malta was left dead The Knights Hospitaller, along with a ragtag group of around two thousand soldiers drawn from Spain, Italy, Greece, and Sicily, held the island for fourtheir dead in the tens of thousands, turned and sailed home

Had the Ottoree that their forces could have easily takenthe Renaissance to co the fate of the world

The residents of Malta had fought to the death Were they defending so besides their lives?

David glanced at the paper Missing Alpha Leads to Treasure of Atlantis

What was there on Malta? Soue ravaging the world?

David was a historian He believed in facts: the truth culled from multiple sources, verified by eyewitnesses, ideally with differing backgrounds and motivations

Treasure was the lure of fools As were mythical objects The Ark of the Covenant The Holy Grail He didn’t believe in either of them Military history was always more reliable Generals counted their dead Somewhere between the sums on each side lay the truth

And the truth was that countless arht for Malta, and rarely had it fallen

The h she could control theh she could move backward and forward in time