Maggie Shayne - Twilight Series 06 by Twilight Hunger

Maggie Shayne - Twilight Series 06 by Twilight Hunger

Author:Twilight Hunger [Hunger, Twilight]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-01-07T07:18:27+00:00


Chapter 16

Maxine and Lou were sitting in the hospital waiting room, where they'd been sitting for the past four

hours. It was daylight now. Stormy's parents had been notified and finally taken into a private room to

await word. None had come. None whatsoever. It was the crudest form of torture Lou could think of.

The CIA ought to use it. Just refuse to tell some parent how their wounded child was doing until they

gave up every secret in their possession. Hell, it would work every time.

"I've got to get hold of Jay. Jason Beck," Max said. "He would want to know."

Lou didn't like seeing his normally spunky Max this way. She was pale and shaken. Like someone had

hit her smack between the eyes with a fucking two-by-four, and no wonder. He remembered the kid she

referred to. He had been the third part of their inseparable trio all through high school and college. "Do

you know where to find him?"

She shook her head slowly, stayed quiet for a long time. Then finally she spoke again. "It's probably

just

as well," she said. And it took Lou a moment to realize she was still talking about Jason Beck. He

wondered vaguely how she'd managed to lose touch with someone she'd been so close to. But time

passed. Shit happened.

"Why do you say that?"

"Come on, Lou. You know what this is about as well as I do. They found out that I'd told you what I

knew about DPI."

He averted his eyes.

"It's the only thing that makes sense. They kill Stormy and frame you. It's a message to me. A lesson for

me. It serves to make sure I won't ever tell anyone else. They destroy two people I lo—care about. Just

like that Stiles guy told me he would. The question is, how does he know I told you?"

Lou licked his lips, lifted his gaze to hers slowly. "I made a call last night."

She went very still. Didn't say anything, just stared at him, begging him with her eyes not to tell her

what

she had to know he was going to tell her.

"To the friend of mine who works for the CIA. I asked him to find out what he could about DPI. Told

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him I suspected they'd been running some kind of covert op out of White Plains until the HQ burned

five

years ago. I didn't mention you or the man you saw."

"You didn't have to." She swallowed hard. "I asked you not to talk to anyone, Lou. How could you do

this tome?"

"Hey, Max, come on. I had no reason to think it would result in anything like… like this."

"No reason? You had one reason. You had my word. I told you they threatened my friends and my

mother, and you went right ahead and—" She stopped there. "Oh, God. Oh, God, my mother."

She was on her feet and heading for a pay phone before Lou could stop her. He leaned back in his vinyl

seat, pushed a hand through his hair. She was right; she was dead right. If



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