Operation Sheba by Evans Misty

Author:Evans, Misty [Evans, Misty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781605040820
Publisher: Samhain
Published: 2008-09-09T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Langley A vague sense of relief washed over Julia as she absentmindedly walked around the room’s nerve center filled with computer screens, faxes and phones, and breathed in the familiar stale office air. A smattering of dedicated men and women from the CIA, the FBI and the Secret Service were bent over various electronic equipment and piles of paper, all giving up a weekend afternoon to work toward a common goal. Keep America safe.

It had been her goal too for all these years. CIA Headquarters was a place that had offered refuge to her, and up to now, had provided reinforcement in her psyche that her country was a safer place because of these quiet but extraordinary guards.

But now she wondered as she passed the cubicles partitioned off for bin Laden and Hezbollah, what harm was coming out of these walls? The shadow CIA was effectively crippling the United States’ intelligence community and no one but a couple of men, highly skilled yes, but ordinary men nonetheless, knew the specifics of what was happening.

Throwing her backpack on her desk, Julia ignored the weekend’s dump of intelligence information on it. She was already late for lunch with Michael, and she knew Con was probably wondering what the hell she was doing, but she needed to check her desk and get a personal item out of it before she started the whole charade to expose Susan. If she didn’t, she would not most likely get it back.

Julia bent down and shuffled through the contents of her bottom desk drawer. Under the miscellaneous files and tech manuals lay a picture. She stared at it for a second, a snapshot of her previous life.

April in Paris. She’d been so happy. Con had been happy then too, but there he was in the picture, angry with her for taking it, all dark and forbidding and looking like the Devil himself. But she’d won out over his anger, took the picture, and had kept the only picture she had of him all these years.

April in Paris. Long walks in the dead of night. Words of love and commitment filling her ears while her heart seemed to expand until it would burst.

April in Paris. Cherry blossoms falling from the trees in Luxembourg Gardens as she and Conrad hid underneath the canopy in the darkness and made up a fantasy life for themselves that didn’t involve the CIA. Back at her flat, he laughed at her as she lay on the bed with cherry blossoms still stuck in her hair. God, she loved making the Great Conrad Flynn laugh.

She had known at that moment that she was living a life many women dreamed about but never experienced. She was attractive, intelligent and successful, but it wasn’t enough. She wanted more. She wanted to be the woman with cherry blossoms stuck in her hair, making Conrad laugh for the rest of his life.

It hadn’t happened. Her future with him had been ripped away shortly after that by the unseen force manipulating the CIA.

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