Faina by Rudy Gaborno & Chris Hollier

Author:Rudy Gaborno & Chris Hollier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Published: 2005-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

“Are you trying to ruin that girl’s life?”

Sydney confronted Vaughn in the lounge area. Her body language was as easy to read as a freeway billboard. Her eyes looked up at Vaughn’s, disapproval registering across all levels.

Vaughn realized how inane his “How’s Faina?” inquiry was the moment he said it.

Sydney couldn’t believe him, the irony of his remarks. In the second of waiting for her response, Vaughn began to construct protective walls around his emotions. He knew what force, like a tornado in the distance, was coming. Sydney’s next words were deliberate, delivered like an advancing swordsman but with ammunition not just pulled from the adjacent room.

“You sit in my home. You charm me,” Sydney said. “You implore me to believe…. And the worst of it, Michael? I believed you!”

“Syd…”

“I felt like you were opening up to me when you told me that you wanted to change. Maybe…maybe you’re incapable of it.” Their past was complicated; they both knew that, but the past few weeks had been a dance between hope and failure. They both knew it had the potential to consume them if they did not find some resolve.

Vaughn wanted more than anything to be with Sydney, and he genuinely felt the same pull from her. The problem wasn’t the desire to be together, it was the actual application of it. The question still remained, Would they be able to unite before their differences made it all fade away?

“What’s consuming you, Michael? You used to risk your life to protect innocents just like Faina. I refuse to believe that the Michael Vaughn I know has given that up.”

He couldn’t sit silent anymore. I made the hard choice. He had his own take on what happened in that basement, and hoping she’d understand, he laid it out for her. “Nothing consumes me. I’ve finally seen the world for what it is. My decision in the mortuary saved us!”

“And that’s what frightens me, the justification for your actions. You acted just like my father, seeing yourself as right. He always puts it in those terms. It either is or isn’t, for him. Is life that black and white to you? Is our relationship?”

“What would you have me do, Agent Bristow?” He felt like he was being schooled. “We were running out of time. It’s easy now to tell me what was right or wrong, but remember, we’re alive right now and have the luxury of this wonderful diatribe!”

The only thing more uncomfortable than having a loved one yell at you is the silence. They were at a standoff, an unfixable juncture. An apology would simply mask the larger issue. Would what they had simply be worn down by uncontrollable forces?

Vaughn broke the standstill, trying to salvage something good. “Sydney, I’m sorry. My intent was in no way to hurt the girl….” He let that lie out there for a few seconds. The room was quiet, and he stepped closer to relay the next part of his argument. “There’s something more here, Sydney.

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