Going Grey by Karen Traviss

Author:Karen Traviss [Traviss, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, science fiction
Publisher: Karen Traviss
Published: 2014-06-09T00:00:00+00:00

VANCOUVER

AUGUST.

Kinnery knew this would be one of the worst decisions of his life. And he had no choice but to obey Leo and make it.

Returning to KWA didn't top the list of disasters, but it was already hurting. The news about the ranch had just cemented it. He knew he'd never let anything slip. He could safely assume they'd acquired the phone numbers illegally, but he hadn't worked out how they were getting the rest of the information.

Who even knew Maggie existed? Shaun must have gone back forty years to dredge this up.

He paced up and down the hall, waiting for the airport taxi and crushed by the prospect of shuttling between Vancouver and Michigan for the foreseeable future. With stopovers, it took longer than a flight to Europe. Jesus H. Christ, he was getting too old for all that.

Then one of his phones rang. He felt in his pockets and took out the burner.

"Glad I caught you," Leo said. "Any progress?"

"No. The source has to be someone who knew Maggie, because her family had that ranch for years, but how I can't work out how they identified her in the first place. I agree that the phone number gave them a break. But someone's got more than the call logs."

"Well, they might not have confirmation that there's any connection at all. Play it by ear. You know they've acted illegally. But keep your powder dry. Goodbye."

Leo rung off as abruptly as he'd opened the conversation. It was to reduce the length of the call, Kinnery knew, but he also detected that whiff of disdain. He now had a long flight via Portland and Detroit and an overnight stay to rehearse his responses before he had to face Shaun.

At some point he was going to have to square his exit with the university, too. Automatically, he thought in terms of playing the age card and explaining to the head of faculty that he simply couldn't cope health-wise. The truth was a theoretically noble thing, but never respected, appreciated, or acted upon; it was lies that kept society stable. Lies were gentler and easier fit around you. The truth never put anything right, and most people didn't much like it.

So how would I have traced Maggie?

Kinnery put the resignation issue to one side for the journey and spent the next eleven hours working his way through a mental list of everyone he knew who'd also known her. He could only think of friends at Lomax University. If she was in touch with anyone after graduation who also knew him and had left a trail that had persisted for all those years, then she'd never mentioned it, and Maggie was the ultimate destroyer of trails and clues.

That's one of the reasons I chose her.

Kinnery rehearsed every possible confrontation with Sean, his chest sporadically hollowed by palpitations that made him think the next heartbeat would never come. By the time he arrived in Lansing that evening, he was ready to drop and in no mood to take any crap.

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