I Spy Something Bloody[ I Spy 1] by Josh Lanyon

Author:Josh Lanyon [Lanyon, Josh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0088YXEM6
Publisher: Just Joshin'
Published: 2012-06-03T12:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five I found him in the study putting the copy of the Rubaiyat back on its shelf. “Yes,” I said. “I was coming back.”

Stephen looked at me appraisingly. “Well, you think you were, so I guess that’s

something.”

“I did come back,” I said. “I’m here. Why doesn’t that count for anything with you?” He shook his head like it was too tiring to try and explain.

“It was all — it is all — I’m trained to do.” I said again, needing him to understand,

“It’s all I know.”

“I realize that,” he said.

Yes. He realized that. We’d talked about all this. Talked about everything. Stephen

knew more about me than anyone — up to and including the agency I worked for. “It’s what you’re trained for, and you’re very good at it. And, assuming you don’t get

your head blown off, you’ll probably have a long and illustrious career. The impression I

received in the one real conversation I ever had with the man, was that Holohan plans on

eventually grooming you for his position. Assuming you survive that long.” The thought had quite literally never occurred to me. I was struck silent. He must have seen the surprise on my face, because he said, “Why do you think he

pulled out all the stops getting you to come back?’

“I’m valuable to him.”

“Yes, you are. Not only are you one of his top operatives, you’re one of the only

people in the world he trusts. He wasn’t about to let you go without a fight.” He

shrugged. “And he won.”

“No, he didn’t,” I said. “I’ve left the agency.”

He was closing the glass-fronted bookshelf, but that got his attention. “What are you

talking about?”

I hadn’t intended to tell him that, but there was no turning back now. “Except…I

didn’t do it the way we — I’d — originally planned. I just…walked away. I’m technically

AWOL, I suppose.”

“You’re what?”

“Absent Without Leave.”

“I know what it means!”

“I wanted to see you. I…needed to see you.”

He didn’t look pleased or flattered, he looked stone-faced. “What exactly did you

do?”

“After I was debriefed, after this…last time, I was supposed to report to hospital for

rest and ob — treatment.”

His eyes flickered.

“Instead I…I…just kept going.” Clutching my Glock and my copy of Little Dorrit.

Maybe locking me up wasn’t such a bad idea.

“Why didn’t you tell me this?” Definitely stone-faced. Granite.

“I was waiting for the right moment.”

His brows drew together in a silver line. Finally he said, “What will happen to you?” ”I…Honestly? I don’t know.”

“What do you mean, you don’t know?” He was angry again. Nothing used to ruffle

him, now he was angry all the time. With me. “Are they going to come after you?” “You mean like in the films? Or a le Carré novel? Because I know too much?” I was

smiling because I thought that just maybe he did care a little. He didn’t want to, he had

convinced himself that he didn’t, but on some level he still had feelings for me. Of course

being Stephen he’d probably be concerned for a stranger in my position too. “I’m a field

agent. I know next to nothing useful.

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