Endgame: The Training Diaries Volume 2: Descendant by James Frey

Author:James Frey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-15T16:00:00+00:00

She laughs unhappily. “You’re funny,” she says, but he knows what she’s thinking. That it was another girl on the phone. That the rumors about Maccabee, how he takes what he wants from a girl and casts her aside, are true. That this boy who claims to love her is taking secret four a.m. phone calls from someone else. Maccabee lets her think it. Having a girlfriend in this place is useful in more ways than one, but it doesn’t matter who the girl is. When this one gets too tiresome, there will always be another.

In the meantime . . .

“Since you’re awake,” he says, “I should point out we have two hours before you have to sneak back to your room.”

“However will we fill the time?” she says playfully, then tucks her long, blond hair over her shoulder and exposes a long stretch of neck.

He closes his eyes, thinking of Tuesday night, wondering at the need for the meeting and what will come of it, whether change is on the horizon, if Ekaterina will be proud of all he’s done here, and then he presses his lips to bare skin and wraps his arms around a narrow waist and, for the time being, thinks no more.

Sometimes this place has its advantages.

Maccabee arrives at the restaurant early. Ekaterina, of course, is earlier. She has never allowed him the upper hand, even for a second.

“Mother,” he says, unbuttoning his blazer, then sitting down across the table from her.

“Ekaterina,” she corrects him.

“Yes, of course. Ekaterina. I trust your flight over was smooth.”

“We aren’t here for small talk, my Player,” she snaps.

“Of course,” he says again. He has been wondering whether perhaps there is no important mission; perhaps it’s just been long enough that she wanted to see him, made an excuse.

But he should have known better.

A waiter silently materializes at their table, handing Maccabee a wine list. “Will you have something to drink, sir?”

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