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by Evan Ansot


  “When you find him, tell him Sabah says hello,”she said.

  “I will. But you said you never told him that he has a son. It will come to him as a surprise that I exist,” said Youssef.

  After Youssef left his mother, he got on the phone to his contact within Egyptian intelligence and told him that he needed the address for one Edward Dudley of Michigan. Once this was found, he booked tickets for himself and his two bodyguards for the next flight out of Egypt headed for the States.

  The next evening Youssef and his two bodyguards, Omar and Abdul, were standing outside Edward Dudley’s house in Bald Eagle Bluffs, Michigan. Of course, since Eddie was still in Australia, no one was home.

  Youssef, like Shimon and the Vatican Police before him, contacted his connections and found Eddie to have purchased a short-term visa for Australia and was in Sydney, New South Wales.

  The next day, Youssef purchased three tickets for Sydney, and they were off to Australia, two days after the Roman Catholics had left and one day after the two elderly Israelis.

  May 27, 2015

  Vatican City, Rome, Italy

  Once Mother Anastasia received news that Sister Gabriella

  was to be transferred to Rome, she filled out the necessary paperwork and appealed the transfer all the way up to the Holy Father himself.

  First, she had to go through the bishop of Florence to state her case. He, of course, didn’t want to take on the papal secretary, so he denied Mother Anastasia’s appeal to transfer Sister Gabriella.

  Next up to bat was the regional cardinal for that area, and once again the appeal was denied.

  Finally, after going through the necessary chain of command, Mother Anastasia was able to see the Holy Father himself on this matter.

  Once she knelt and kissed the fisherman’s ring of Saint Peter, he said, “So you are the one after my job.”

  She responded, “No, Your Holiness. That is the Holy Mother Mary’s idea.”

  “Are you sure?” asked the pope.

  “Most Holy Father, I have witnessed for myself miracles come from the Holy Mother to our order. If Sister Gabriella says that the Holy Mother said something, then she did,” said Mother Anastasia.

  “Mother Anastasia, what type of miracles have you witnessed?” asked the Holy Father.

  She thought to herself that she wrote all this herself in her report, but if the Holy Father wished for her to go over it all again, then she would. “Your Holiness, the miracles actually began when she showed up at our doorstep when she was only four years old. Her mother had passed away, and she was thirty kilometers away from her house. How she ended up in Florence, no one knows to this day.The next miracle happened when she was eight years old. She had told the order that she had a vision from the Holy Mother. Of course, we were skeptical and asked for a sign. The Holy Mother gave us one by changing the color of the dress of the statue of the Holy Mother in the Badia Fiorentina.”

  The Holy Father interrupted and asked, “The color of the dress changed on the statue?”

  “Yes, Your Holiness,” she responded.

  “Continue on,” he said.

  “From that point forward, the Holy Mother would visit Sister Gabriella on the fifteenth of the month every month. Another miracle occurred when Sister Francesca fractured her leg once on the thirteenth of the month, and on the fifteenth she was completely healed.”

  Once again, the Holy Father interrupted and said, “Fascinating. How was the order able to sneak all this past the fathers and the monsignor?”

  “They don’t pay much attention to us, Your Holiness,” she said.

  “I suppose that is a mistake on their part. Continue,” said his Holiness.

  Once he said this, the two of them were interrupted by the papal secretary, Carmen Rizzo, who entered into the Most Holy Father’s personal study. The Holy Father held up his hand toward his secretary and declared, “I am not to be interrupted by anyone for the next thirty minutes. Thank you.”

  The papal secretary and Mother Anastasia each shot each other a look of distrust, and the secretary took his leave.

  “Sorry for the interruption, Mother, continue on,” said His Holiness, noting the discomfort that the mother felt toward his secretary.

  “Most of the visits by the Holy Mother were just blessings toward our order of nuns. Well, over 90 percent of them. But every now and then, there was some kind of miracle,” said Mother Anastasia.

  “And then came that day in March,”said the Holy Father.

  “Yes, Your Holiness. Sister Gabriella fainted when she received this message. She spent the rest of the day in her bed to recover from it. Holy Father, she never wanted to deliver this message to you. She knew it would cause a scandal, but the Holy Mother warned her that she had to deliver it to you immediately,” said Mother Anastasia.

  “Especially after the treatment Sister Lucia received, correct?” said the Holy Father.

  “Yes, Your Holiness,” said Mother Anastasia as she bowed her head. She knew that he knew the conversations that went on between Sister Gabriella and herself, and she felt partly ashamed at the way she had spoken of the church in reference to Sister Lucia.

  “It’s okay to think that way, Mother, the church was in the wrong for the way they treated her,”said the Holy Father.

  This came as a surprise to Mother Anastasia and caught her off guard. “I didn’t know you felt that way, Your Holiness.”

  “I don’t always agree with the church,” he said.

  “Holy Father, nor do I,” she giggled.

  He had himself a good laugh and said, “Now you keep that a secret between you and me, okay?”

  “I promise to do just that, Your Holiness,” she said.

  He cleared his throat and said, “Now about this matter of transferring your beloved Sister Gabriella. Do you believe it is possible for her and the rest of the order to be able to keep all this miracles business a secret?”

  “I promise you, Holy Father, that we will remain silent. None of us want a media circus,” she said.

  “Nor do I,” he said. “I don’t normally trump my personal secretary, but in this case, I feel I must have to. Sister Gabriella will remain at the lovely Badia Fiorentina under your guidance.”

  “Oh thank you, Holy Father!” she exclaimed.

  “No need to thank me.To separate Sister Gabriella from the Badia Fiorentina would be an injustice. Especially since the Holy Mother herself guided her there,” he said.

  “She is very much guided by the Holy Mother,” agreed Mother Anastasia.

  “I believe she is, and we are fortunate to have her,” said the Holy Father.

  “Holy Father, if I may be allowed to overstep myself, can I ask a question?” said Mother Anastasia.

  “You wish to know if the church is going to abide by the Holy Mother Mary’s wishes?” said the Holy Father.

  “Yes, that has been on my mind,” said Mother Anastasia.

  “Unfortunately, it is not solely up to me. There is a process for electing a pontiff, and it involves more than just one man’s opinion. If it did, I would gladly give up the fisherman’s ring. Once again, we will keep that to ourselves,” he said.

  “Of course,” she said.

  “Mother, for the record, I believe yourself and Sister Gabriella,” he said.

  “Thank you,” she said.

  After another ten minutes of small talk,she took her leave and headed back to Florence and the Badia Fiorentina to tell the order of nuns that they wouldn’t have to resign. Nor would their beloved Sister Gabriella have to leave them.

  May 27, 2015

  Haifa, Israel

  At 2:00 a.m., Miriam’s bedroom went cool by about ten

  degrees in a matter of seconds, like a cold Arctic blast just swept through it. Twelve giant lizard men immediately materialized out of thin air and surrounded Miriam’s bed while she slept. One of the Lizard men grabbed Miriam’s ankles, while another grabbed her by her forearms, attempting to abduct her. The othe
r ten, with their swords drawn, were there in case there was any kind of interference to their plans.

  That interference would come instantly as a brilliant flash of light enveloped the entire room and materialized into a giant angel with a flaming sword. With one fell swoop of the angel’s mighty sword, six lizard men were cut down and dematerialized. On the back swing, the other six fell and also dematerialized. They all sounded like cat’s screeching as they were hit. The mighty angel’s swings happened instantaneously.

  After the angel checked Miriam to make sure all was well, the angel left the premises.

  Miriam was undisturbed and slept through the whole episode.

  The next morning in the Rabin household over breakfast, Miriam was telling Sarah and Anna of the dream she had the night before.

  “And then Michael showed up and killed them all in a matter of seconds. It just took him only two swings to destroy them.”

  “Well, thank god it was only a dream,” said Sarah.

  “But it all seemed so real. I can’t explain it, but I believe it really happened. I think Michael showed up to our house last night. He looked exactly like he did when he visited us,” said Miriam.

  A thought occurred to Anna who then went over to her daughter and checked her forearms and legs. Sure enough, there were bruises all over her body. “Oh my god!” Anna exclaimed.

  Sarah ran over to check on her granddaughter. She also looked at the bruises and exclaimed, “They must have tried to take her last night!”

  Anna kept studying the bruises and asked her daughter Miriam, “You didn’t wake up during any of this?”

  “No, Mommy, but I dreamt it,” Miriam answered.

  Evan Ansot The bruises were deep.They would leave a mark for days. Sarah kissed her granddaughter on the forehead and said, “Tell us about the dream again, sweetie.”

  “It was all so fast. These giant lizard men showed up and tried to take me away. Two of them grabbed me, and as soon as they tried, Michael showed up and stopped them.”

  “How did he do that?” asked Sarah. Miriam got up from her chair and showed them how Michael with both his hands on his huge sword had struck one way and then on the back swing struck the other. “And when he struck them, they just disappeared. It all happened in an instant,” she said.

  “Well, that settles it. Miriam, you are not going to be sleeping alone anymore,” said Sarah.

  “Why? Michael protects me when I sleep,” Miriam objected.

  “Your grandmother will feel better if you sleep with either me or her,” said Anna.

  “I won’t take no for an answer,” said Sarah.

  There was one other thing that young Miriam remembered from her dream but refused to share with her mother and grandmother. Before the giant lizard men showed up, she saw an image of a very muscular man with the head of a Bull. It was there for an instant and then it vanished and the lizard men showed up followed by Michael. Miriam was left to wonder who the mysterious man with the head of the bull was.

  That morning, Sarah Rabin attempted to call Rabbi Benjamin Yahuda to update him on this latest happening in the Rabin household but was unable to reach him. She left a message on his answering service.

  May 28, 2015

  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  On the same day that Mother Anastasia was being

  interviewed by the Holy Father and young Miriam’s attempted abduction took place, Shimon Katz and Benjamin Yahuda were parked two blocks away from Elizabeth Dudley’s home in Sydney, Australia. They knew where to look because when one applies for a ninety-day visa in Australia, you have to put a location where you will be staying. Eddie used Elizabeth’s home address, even though he planned on spending about only half his time there since the rest would be in travel.

  They had found her house the night before, noted the location, and checked into a nearby hotel. Knowing that others—for some reason or the other—were also looking for Eddie Dudley, Shimon decided not to try his luck yet at the Dudley residence in Australia. He would first stake the place out.

  Arriving at their present location two hours prior, they began drinking coffee and reading the local newspaper. Occasionally, Shimon would raise his binoculars and look for any activity around the Dudley residence.

  Then the activity that Shimon had been waiting for arrived in the form of a black sedan with two men wearing dark suits pulling into the Dudley driveway. He retrieved his binoculars and watched as the men got out of their vehicle and approached Elizabeth’s door. This should be interesting, thought Shimon.

  After knocking several times on the door with no response, the men got back into their black sedan and drove away.

  Shimon started their rental Toyota and followed behind. But not too close as to be noticed.

  “Now why would the Vatican be taking an interest in Mr. Edward Dudley?” asked Shimon.

  Benjamin gave his friend a perplexed look.

  “One of those two men has a ring on with the keys to Saint Peter. It’s a symbol for the Vatican,” said Shimon.

  “Interesting,” muttered Benjamin. “Those must be extremely powerful binoculars you have there, my friend.”

  “You won’t find many like them in the world,” said Shimon.

  The two elderly Israelis tailed the two officials from the Vatican until the black sedan pulled into the parking lot of the Four Seasons Hotel. Shimon noted this and kept driving the Toyota away.

  “Well, now we know where they are staying. They are more than likely going inside to receive further instructions from headquarters in Rome. They’ll be a while until they find out where Eddie went off to,” said Shimon.

  Shimon picked up the phone and called his contact in Tel Aviv.

  He scribbled something down in his little pocket notebook and drove the five kilometers to their own hotel.

  “What do we do now?” asked Benjamin.

  “Wait for a phone call,” said Shimon.

  Benjamin looked at Shimon with raised eyebrows until Shimon said, “Right now I have a man in Mossad tracking down information about Elizabeth Dudley—her vehicle, where she likes to go for a vacation, and so on. Also I have a man checking to find out why two officials from the Vatican are in Sydney looking for Eddie.”

  “The Mossad has contacts inside the Vatican?” asked Benjamin.

  “We have contacts everywhere, and so do they,” said Shimon.

  “Shouldn’t we have stayed and kept an eye on those two at the Four Seasons Hotel?” asked Benjamin.

  “Our contacts are better than theirs. We will find out information about Elizabeth before they will. I’m just curious as to why they are here. Those two we spotted aren’t normal priests, they are assassins,” said Shimon.

  “How can you tell?” asked Benjamin.

  “I’ve been doing this a long time, my friend,” said Shimon with a wink.

  While they waited for that phone call, there was a knock on their hotel room door. Shimon arose and answered it. He then muttered a few words to the man at the door, took the bag the man was holding for him, and closed the door.

  “One can’t be too safe with Vatican assassins around,” said Shimon. He then opened the contents of the bag and asked Benjamin, “Remember how to use one of these?” He then held up a 9 mm Berretta automatic pistol.

  “Sure, one doesn’t forget after army training,” said Benjamin.

  “It’s been a long time since you’ve used one, hasn’t it?” said Shimon.

  “I haven’t used a weapon since the war of ’67,” said Benjamin.

  “You’ll be fine,” said Shimon. He then walked over to Benjamin and handed him the pistol. He took another one out of the bag and loaded it. He also reached into the bag and pulled out two suppressors and attached them to each pistol.

  Also in the inventory of the bag were two disposable cell phones, ten thousand Australian dollars, and two more fake sets of identification, including driver’s licenses and passports. “This should hold us for a while,” said
Shimon.

  Once they geared themselves up with their new items, Shimon’s phone rang.

  “She drives a Nissan and likes to spend her spare time at Mount Tambourine, near Brisbane,” said the caller.

  Shimon then scribbled down the license plate number in his notebook and thought, A little over seventy years ago, the Japs bombed Australia. Now the Aussies all drive Japanese cars. They apparently don’t have as long as memories as Jews have.

  Twenty minutes later, the two Israelis went to the rental agency and changed their Toyota for a Jeep and headed north. As they did, a plane was just landing at the Sydney Airport with three Egyptian passengers aboard. Youssef and his two bodyguards, Omar and Abdul, had just arrived in town to make things even more interesting than they already were.

  May 29, 2015

  Mount Tamborine, Queensland, Australia

  It was morning in Queensland as Eddie stood outside

  their lovely motel having a cup of coffee. Overlooking the Guanaba Gorge and listening to the sounds of whipbirds, lorikeets,and kookaburras as the morning mist rose through the rainforest. It was a stunning view.

  I could get used to this , thought Eddie. This country is absolutely beautiful.

  He took a sip from his coffee and noticed that same attractive brunette that he had seen in Los Angeles and in Sydney walking toward him.

  Holy shit! What the hell is she doing here?

  She was wearing a raincoat for some reason. Eddie thought that odd considering there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. She then grabbed the coat and flashed to him what he considered the best-looking naked female body he had ever seen in his life.

  Holy shit! he thought again.

  “Like what you see, Eddie?” she asked.

  “What?” he answered.

  “You must be out of practice, sailor,”

  She then approached, stuck her right middle finger in her mouth and seductively sucked on it, while her left hand reached down, unzipped his pants, and grabbed his balls, fondling them. While she was fondling him, she reached up and whispered into his ear, “You can have me anytime you want. Just say the name Lilith, and I am yours.”

 

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