Keeping Cassandra (Alliez Security Book 4) by Nicole Flockton

Author:Nicole Flockton [Flockton, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Cass was alone in her office, searching for a hint to her past she was beginning to believe didn’t exist.

It’d been three days since they’d found the trackers on their cars. Three days since the reality of the situation had really hit her.

Three days of constantly looking over her shoulder.

Her uncle wanted her.

Deal and Hound had reported there hadn’t been much movement at the house where her uncle’s second-in-command and two lackeys were holed up.

That raised red flags for Cass, and the team. Why weren’t they making a move? Were they waiting for her uncle to turn up?

Even considering Gomez Ramirez as her uncle was foreign. She didn’t know the man. Had had nothing to do with him. If she’d even met the man, she couldn’t recall.

Then again, the first eight years of her life was a blank space, and she couldn’t find a damn thing to help her unlock those memories.

The mystery still remained of what’d happened to her for two years. Cass had worked at the CIA for long enough to know they recorded everything. Had a file on every operation they conducted. Every experimental torture technique.

Everything.

Yet, it appeared they hadn’t bothered to record anything related to those two years of her life. As though she didn’t exist. As if they’d locked her away somewhere and had forgotten about her.

Had that been what’d happened?

Had they put her in a dark cell with nothing except the essentials, and when they’d broken her, they’d pulled her out and had given her over to the agents who became her parents?

Cass closed her eyes and supported her head in her hands. “Why can’t I remember?” she muttered. “Why can’t I unlock this mystery? Why can’t I find anything?”

Her head began to ache, and she welcomed the pain, instead of being afraid of it. She didn’t have a tumor. She’d had scans and MRIs. There was nothing wrong with her brain. No reason for the pain to happen. However, it happened regularly. Recently, when it arrived, it brought back one of her locked memories.

She snapped her eyes open.

Was the pain in her head related to her past?

Related to what had happened to her?

Another searing pain penetrated Cass’s skull, and she breathed through it, closing her eyes once again.

Would she get another memory?

Or would it remain blank?

Slowly a fuzzy image formed. She was sitting in a room. The chair was metal and uncomfortable to sit on. Her hands rested on a matching metal desk.

Someone sat across from her, showing her pictures and talking slowly.

Cass didn’t understand what was being said, and she couldn’t make out what was being shown to her younger self.

Frustration flowed through her. Was it from not being able to see fully what was unfolding, or was she picking up on the emotions she’d been feeling at the time?

Her fingers curled into fists, and she pounded the table before standing and flipping it over.

A shadow formed into a person who grabbed her. A man.

She could see herself kicking her legs in an attempt to get away.

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