The Spy I Loved by Dusty Miller

Author:Dusty Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, suspense, satire, spy, international intrigue, dusty miller, the spy i loved

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When Lindsey knocked at his door, his dinner sizzling on the grille out back, Liam hesitated to answer. All she had to do was walk around to the back and wait a few minutes. He would hardly let the steak burn. Knowing Lindsey, she would just pick up a fork and turn it over anyways

Sighing, he bowed to the inevitable Fates.

She came in, looking nervous but determined. At first she had trouble meeting his eyes, and then her face came up. There was that cold rush of adrenalin again.

He wished she would stop doing that. She wanted him real bad and he just couldn’t do it.

“Who are you?”

“Er…Lindsey?”

“Those men. You sabotaged their boat.”

He couldn’t help the guilty smirk, but desperately tried to cover.

“What—what are you talking about?”

She’d seen the gun of course. He’d had about three stiff whiskeys and let her in on some mad impulse that had quickly come back to haunt him. She knew he had it with him on the island, at the campfire.

“I saw you that morning. I was opening up. Most of the die-hards had gone off at dawn, but you were futzing around down there in good light. They couldn’t see you—you’re down the bank a ways and the angle’s all wrong. They were across the road and there are trees. A man like you would have known that.” They had come down with their tackle and cooler just about the time Liam fired up. “It’s not that hard to figure out, Liam Kimball.”

They were timing it just as much as he was. They’d been watching each other. They were the only people in the camp not intent having a good time and minding their own business, first and foremost.

She was convinced she’d seen him do something to their boat. Although, at the time, she didn’t think much of it, now she was sure. She’d had a little time to think. Now there were all these goings-on. Helicopters, people talking about explosions upriver, strange men coming and going…and Liam, imperturbable, clearly not really belonging there no matter how well he could cast a line.

Liam, who had people sneaking around his back door late at night.

“Lindsey. Why would I ever want to do such a thing? Uh, whatever you think it was?”

“You mean like pulling the baler plug and giving it a good yank? Or maybe loosening up the spark-plug connector with a bit of a hard side-ways pull on the wire? Pull the spark-plug cap and spit in it when it’s another man’s boat? Don’t forget, we have our little fishing tournaments around here and there are some real big-money prizes. Yeah, eh. Some real professionals, too—and some real cheats. Yes, Liam Kimball. That is what I would very much like to find out.”

“Honestly, Lindsey. I have no idea what you are talking about.”

She stared for a moment. She bit back tears. Then she turned around and walked out the door, leaving him with a terrible sinking sensation.

This definitely wasn’t over.

She was so beautiful when she was angry.

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