Fall On Your Knees by Mary C. Findley

Author:Mary C. Findley [Findley, Mary C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romantic Suspense Christmas Novella
Publisher: Mary C. Findley
Published: 2015-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

Seven

The next two days were bliss for Murali, just looking, and touching, and breathing in Karin. They saw magic shows, wild animal acts, and dinner theater musicals and swam at least once a day. Murali fell deeper in love with her as they read the Scriptures together and attended services at the church of the minister who had married them.

Tuesday morning, Murali said, "I have to go back to work."

"I thought you were retired," Karin said.

"I can't ask the agency to continue protecting us without helping them solve this problem. They're getting nowhere trying to find out who paid those thugs -- or was going to pay them. The one who's still alive refuses to talk. Someone has got to make him tell us what he knows."

"You're going to -- to interrogate him?" Karin asked.

"Yes. I am considered one of the agency's better interrogators. I need you to come with me, please, to the place where they're holding him."

"Are you going to torture him? Like they tortured you? Is that right?"

"Three other agents involved in the Laptop Project have died," Murali told her. "I should have been dead also. I need to do something before more are killed. You don't have to see what I do. I just need you to come with me so the agency’s resources aren't divided."

"This is necessary to save lives?"

"I pray God I can do that, just as you saved mine."

"But I –" Karin bit off her words as the memory of his cold lips chilled her soul.

"I’m sorry." He tried to take her in his arms. She stayed stiff for a moment but gradually softened into his embrace and sobbed. This was the last thing he had wanted to do … to make this woman cry. Still, he had more that needed to be said.

"Sometimes it’s necessary to do things we wish we didn’t have to so we can protect others." He felt her head bob against his collarbone and she didn’t pull away. He laid his cheek against her hair and then pulled back, holding her shoulders and stroking them with small thumb-circles.

"Also, I don’t use physical torture as such," Murali said when she still didn’t answer. "I use psychological techniques – unpleasant sounds, small enclosures, light and dark – And I talk to them. I try to persuade, not torment."

Still she didn’t speak. "Karin, I … I need you to come, to be nearby. I need to be able to leave that behind and remember that I have a refuge where I can be the man you married. I need us both to be each other’s refuge, because we cannot avoid the world forever. We don’t have to go confront it. Soon it will come and confront us."

Karin lifted her hands and clasped his. "Of course I'll come."

***

Murali held Karin as close as he could when they stepped out the front doors of the hotel. He saw Gerald and Bruno waiting for them in the black SUV and caught her look of surprise.

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