Allison Brennan by Playing Dead

Author:Playing Dead [Dead, Playing]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-10-12T00:26:52+00:00

“They’re playing you, Claire. Good cop, bad cop. Classic game.” Claire didn’t know what Dave was talking about, but her head began to pound. “This isn’t a game. This is just the Feds going after my dad. We talked about this, and there’s—”

“No, Claire, it’s more than that.”

Mitch’s hands fell from her shoulders. She almost didn’t register it, until she felt chilled.

Her brain registered the deception before her heart felt it. Then, like a knife cutting through her skin, she bled inside.

She stared at Dave. Everyone was silent. She felt like a child, the last person in the room who still believed in Santa Claus, until his beard was pulled off.

“Agent Donovan, you need to leave,” she said, her voice shaky.

“We’ll talk tomorrow,” Donovan said, stepping back.

“Bianchi?” Dave said.

Mitch didn’t say anything.

“Or should I say Special Agent Bianchi?”

Claire faced Mitch. He stood only a foot behind her. Santa Claus wasn’t real. And neither was Mitch.

When she looked in Mitch’s eyes she knew Dave spoke the truth. The blood drained from her face and her heart emptied, leaving her with a sick, hollow feeling in the pit of her stomach.

“Claire—” Mitch reached out to touch her face.

She turned from him, biting her cheek to keep from yelling or crying or coming out swinging.

She wanted to do all three. Instead, she found her voice for one word.

“Leave.”

The unbearably long time—twenty-five seconds—it took for Mitch to join Agent Donovan on the porch tested Claire’s resolve. But she stood firm.

She slammed the door behind them, dry heaving.

Dave stepped toward her, touched her lightly on the back. “Claire, sweetheart, I’m so sorry—” She turned and pushed him in the chest so hard he took a step back. “You asshole! You did a background check on him when I told you not to! I’ve told you over and over to leave my boyfriends alone!”

“I wanted to protect you. I wasn’t going to say anything, but then I didn’t know he was an FBI Page 140

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