The Barista's Guide to Espionage by Dave Sinclair

Author:Dave Sinclair
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780648221401
Publisher: Dave Sinclair

Over the next few hours Eva was advised of certain protocols and asked to sign countless forms. For some reason, everything she signed had to be done in green ink. She assumed it was an MI6 thing. Paul left her alone but she saw him hovering in the hall, never too far away.

Form after form was shoved in front of her by humourless and featureless personnel. None cracked a smile. The harder Eva tried to pry some human interaction from them, the faster the forms came. It was officious to the point of clinical detachment. Don't get friendly with the bait.

It was only after the last form had been signed that she saw Bishop again. It was a relief. He was like a human lifebuoy in a sea of bureaucracy. When he sauntered into the meeting room she almost hugged him. Then she remembered she hated him.

Bishop escorted her to the elevator without a word being spoken. As the doors closed, Eva asked, "So, how are we going to do this?"

"Very simply, we're not. I'm taking you home."

"Excuse me?"

"Eva, let's be realistic. I'm not throwing you into a vipers nest full of angry bees…"

"Still haven't got those metaphors sorted out, huh?"

"…with no way of knowing if we can offer you backup."

"I signed forms and everything. I'm in. And there you go telling a woman what she should be doing again."

"If you were a man I'd be advising the same thing."

"Would you be looking at his breasts as much?"

Bishop's eyes darted to the elevator ceiling. "You can still change your mind. Go home and think about it, please. This isn't a game."

"So people keep telling me."

Eva found it odd that Bishop was the one who was trying to talk her out of it. The grey man obviously perceived her as an asset. Even one of her very best friends did. Yet, here was Bishop, a man she hardly knew, a man who disgusted her, looking out for her. What was that all about?

"Are you trying to change my mind because I'm a woman?"

"God no. No. No. I mean, no."

"The sexist brute doth protest too much, methinks."

"No, not at all. But if I were to say anything, I would say that that fieldwork for a woman is inherently more dangerous. The threats are more immediate, there are greater dangers, more psychologically damaging ones than for a man."

Eva chose not to hide the distain. "Just as well you didn't say anything then, otherwise you'd have come off as a patronising chauvinist son of a bitch. Dodged a bullet there."

Regardless of Bishop's misdirected attempt to protect her virtue, there was no way Eva could say she didn't have her doubts. Despite her anger towards Harry she was still betraying her ex-lover and throwing herself recklessly into danger. Was that really who she was?

"All I'm saying is that I urge you to reconsider. I'll be at your house in the morning. Sleep on it."

Absentmindedly, Eva mumbled, "We are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded with sleep.

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