Past Sins by Debra Webb

Author:Debra Webb
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.
Published: 2006-08-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Olivia sat on the back porch, staring at the place where the grass gave way to the woods. She imagined that at one time the dense forest had owned this clearing. Sometime in the last hundred or so years the owner had made way for the house, changing the landscape forever.

That was what the CIA had done to her. They’d cut down her career—her life—and changed the landscape forever. She knew it wasn’t fair to blame the Agency in general. This was the result of decisions made by one or two. People who liked playing God. Power-hungry bastards who cared only for themselves. She’d taken the fall for a mistake. The price was her life as she knew it.

She sucked a deep breath of fresh air into her lungs and expelled it slowly. Why hadn’t he left it alone?

She’d gotten used to the fact that her preferred career was over. With no family ties, vanishing had been easy. Well, easy might be an overstatement, but certainly doable.

For months she’d grieved the loss of her career, of her former self. Of him.

Somehow, maybe because of her training in the workings of the mind, she’d managed to fall into sync with her new existence. She’d built a new career along with a very basic life. Had made a couple of friends. Her patients were eccentric but they paid the bills. There had been a long line of one-night stands and then she’d met Jeffrey. Her life had begun to feel…normal.

But she wasn’t normal. She would never be normal.

She’d taken so many lives in the line of duty. The reality of that career had taken a toll once she’d been still long enough to dwell on it. Once she’d truly lived among the “normals” and had to face the differences between herself and others…civilians.

Maybe that was why she’d never committed fully to Jeffrey. Better the possibility that her former career had handicapped her in the area of emotions than the idea that she was still in love with Landry. Tamping down even the concept, she mentally moved on. There was no way to change the events that had occurred recently. Landry or Hamilton or maybe both had seen to that. If she intended to have a future, she had to have a plan.

Or maybe Landry had one. Yeah, right.

He had given her up. Oh, he had his excuses, just like last time. That made twice he’d screwed her in the most negative sense of the word. Yet his theory about why someone had targeted her for elimination contained so many elements of truth it would be hard to label any single part of it a lie.

Did she trust him or not?

She just didn’t know. The first thing she needed to do was find out Landry’s precise plans, if he had any. She knew him well enough to know he wouldn’t start something he didn’t have a scheme for finishing. That he might very well be using her for bait fired her up but the deed was done.

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