Fatal Desire by Christina OW

Author:Christina OW
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cia, family relationships, mystery suspense, mystery detective, normal life
Publisher: 5 Prince Publishing

Chapter Seven

Elaine looked to her side at Derek where he sat in the driver’s seat of his Mustang, a pair of binoculars perched on his nose. She was still surprised that he’d offered to help her. She, on the other hand, wished she hadn’t offered to help Daniel. It had been instinctual a knee-jerk reaction to keep him safe. Something she’d adapted to doing since she and Tasha had gotten close over five years ago. But now that she’d had time to think about what exactly she had offered, she got a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach. She’d gone to extreme extents to get out of the game for good, to be normal, to create a safe and healthy environment for Katya to grow up in. But now here she was, risking it all for Daniel and his married girlfriend. She suddenly remembered why she was averse to forming relationships.

“Who’s Katya?”

“What?”

Derek lowered the binoculars and spared her just a glance before he turned to look back at Daniel’s house. They were parked six houses down the street, far enough not to arouse a hit man’s suspicion but close enough to get there in a minute when trouble went knocking.

“All the kids are named after someone in the family, I figured you picked up the trend. So who is Katya?”

Elaine looked forward, the weight of the subject sitting so heavily on her that she shifted in discomfort in her seat.

“I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen you nervous about something,” she turned to him, catching his teasing smile, “It’s kind of funny.”

Elaine rolled her eyes, “I’m learning that lowering my guard permits all these feelings to lay their assault. It’s disconcerting.”

“I bet. So are you going to answer me?”

Elaine looked down at her hands, her fingers twirling together. She remembered she used to do that as a little girl when she was feeling shy. She hadn’t thought of her childhood in years. Spending time with Katya was unlocking memories she thought she’d safely hidden away.

“It was my mother’s name, well the name my father gave her when he bought her. I never could find out her real one.”

She felt him tense up beside her and his voice was hard and unforgiving when he asked, “Which country was she trafficked from?”

Modern day slavery, it was more common than anyone wanted to admit, and was the most tragic. All the known traffickers were the first heads Elaine had cut off in her first years as a killer. She was young, small, deceptive and they only realized that when it was too late. She never got tired of cutting off the Hydra’s heads. She did it every chance she got. But that was over now.

Elaine smiled at him and he smiled tightly back, “Ethiopia. Her situation actually turned out to be one for a romance novel.”

“Oh yeah? How so?”

“Father fell in love with her, treated her better than his own wife and everyone else followed his lead. I found out she got him to pull out of human trafficking.

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