City of Spies by Nina Berry

Author:Nina Berry
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Tunnels beneath Buenos Aires, Argentina

January 11, 1962

ATRÁS

To dance backward.

“So your girlfriend has visions of your death?” Pagan said.

She’d kept the flashlight and was leading the way down the tunnel. Devin had made no objection, following close behind. But they weren’t holding hands anymore. “That must put a damper on things.”

“You know quite well she is not my girlfriend,” he said. “But Julieta is known to see things that haven’t happened yet. As far as I know, she’s always right.”

“Fate’s a crock,” Pagan said. “Which means prophecies are, too.”

“You make your own fate,” he said. “I know.”

“And you make yours,” she said. “By flirting outrageously with every girl or guy who might be useful.”

“I do my job,” he said, an edge in his voice.

“Kissing is your job?” She couldn’t help the jealous arch in her voice. “Did you kiss Thomas when you were persuading him to spy for you? Is that why...?”

She broke off, unable to ask if that’s why he’d kissed her back in Berlin. To keep her on his string.

A horrible thought struck her, a thought she hated herself for having the moment it came to her. But maybe Devin had thought she was perfect for the job in Berlin partly because she’d gone all the way with Nicky. Perhaps he thought that meant she could be easily swayed by a handsome face, that she’d be willing to give herself to other men if it helped the mission. Didn’t spies often sleep around to get information? That hadn’t happened yet, but they’d asked her to flirt with Dieter. Devin himself kissed and manipulated her using his charisma and wiles. Had he slept with people to get what he wanted from them? Had he assumed that now she was no longer a virgin, Pagan would be fine treating herself like a piece of meat?

No, Devin wasn’t like that. He’d shown time and again that he valued her for herself.

But maybe at the beginning he’d seen her that way. Tony Perry had said men would only want her for one thing now. Tony was a jerk and a half, but he wasn’t the only one to think that way.

Their footsteps echoed against the brick ceiling for a moment as he didn’t speak. “Sometimes flirting and kissing are part of the job,” he finally said.

“Flirting, kissing and sometimes more?” she said.

He kept walking but threw her a look. “That’s not something a minor would be asked to do.”

She let that sit. So he’d never expected her to sleep with anyone. Or so he said. “You’re not a minor,” she said.

He put a hand gently on her shoulder and pulled her around to face him. His blue eyes were stormier than usual in the dim yellow light. “Does it bother you—about Thomas?” he asked. “I never kissed him, but I did give him the wrong idea.”

“No,” she said. “I mean, yes, it’s not right to mislead people, but he’s fine now and you did it for a good reason. I tried to do the same thing with Dieter and nearly kissed Emma tonight.

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