Code Name: Michelangelo (K19 Allied Intelligence Team Two Book 2) by Heather Slade

Author:Heather Slade [Slade, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sparrow Publishing
Published: 2024-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

“Let’s take a break,” Flick said after a thirty-minute run, during which I threw up more than once. I hadn’t realized how ridiculously out of shape I’d gotten.

“I’m sorry.”

She shook her head. “Don’t be. Few realize the physical demands of undercover work. Frankly, I’m surprised you were able to do as much as you did.”

I doubted her statement was a compliment, so I nodded, then apologized a second time, albeit under my breath. I hated having my time wasted and imagined someone like Flick wouldn’t feel any differently.

“You remind me of me,” she said when we sat under a tree.

I’d just taken a sip of water and nearly spit it out. “In what way?”

She laughed. “You want to be the best at what you do before you even know how to do it.”

“I know how to run, and that wasn’t too impressive.”

Flick leaned back on her hands and looked up at the sky. “Tell me about you and Michelangelo.”

That was a loaded question. “I don’t know where to begin.”

“How did you meet?”

I thought back to the day Tara and I went to her father’s office and Brand was there, talking to his mother. She’d been her dad’s secretary for years and, as it turned out, his lover. It wasn’t until right before Brand went to prison that Tara found out he was her half brother. That he was two years older meant he was conceived after my friend’s parents were married.

“He’s the half brother of one of my best friends,” I responded.

“Tara Emsworth?”

“That’s right.” I wasn’t surprised she already knew. In fact, I wondered why she asked in the first place.

“The rest is history, as they say.”

Flick shook her head. “Not even close. Fast forward several years. What’s between you now? Are you lovers?”

“We were. Now, no.”

“Interesting,” she mumbled.

“In what way?”

She shook her head. “So, why not now?”

“Nope. Not answering you until you answer me.”

Flick laughed at my response. “Very well.”

I remained silent, hoping she’d elaborate. Just when I’d decided she didn’t intend to, she spoke.

“The two of you are clearly in love. There’s danger in that, as I’m sure you know. Not that it isn’t commonplace among our set. In fact, there are few outside of the intelligence business who can fathom the lives we live.”

“That’s true for Brand, err, Michelangelo, and me. Except it has nothing to do with intelligence. Just our backgrounds. How fucked up our parents are. Boarding school life.”

“Understood.”

She stood in one fluid and graceful motion, then held her hand out to help me get up. I’d say do the same, but there was nothing fluid or graceful about the way I did it.

“Come on. I still wondered what that meant, until I spent the next few hours staring at a computer screen, monitoring situations I wasn’t sure were real or simulated from around the world, I wondered if there was any aspect of this job I was suited for. Clearly, I was out of shape physically. And worse was my attention span for the things Flick was teaching me.

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