What Have We Done by Alex Finlay

Author:Alex Finlay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT

JENNA

Jenna is tied to a chair, a black bag over her head.

As expected.

She listens closely. The men speak in whispers, but she can tell that someone new is in the room. Based on the short distance they dragged her, the chirp of crickets, the smell of oil, she thinks it’s a shed or garage. The voice says, “Okay, let’s get a look at her.”

The hood is yanked off.

Yep, she’s in a garage. A huge space that houses a fleet of vintage cars and several motorcycles. The chair she’s strapped to is on top of a large sheet of plastic, never a good sign. An aluminum table—it looks like something you’d see in an operating room—stands nearby with what appear to be instruments of torture neatly aligned upon it.

It’s then that she sees the man’s cocksure smile. The same smile as when they first met nearly a decade ago. They’d been assigned to play an American couple on vacation in Berlin—to bring about the demise of a banker with a long history of working with individuals on terrorist blacklists. All their kissing and canoodling went from acting to authentic somewhere along the way. They spent five years pretending it could work between them. She’d wanted to take it to the next level—wanted a normal life, to get out of The Corporation. Get married, have kids. That wasn’t who he is, he’d told her. Yet here he is with a wife and two kids.

He walks up to her, crouches to eye level, his lips near hers. “You coming to kill me?”

She stares at him a long moment. “Are you dead?”

He smiles. Steps back. “I miss that confidence. And I know you’re not here for me.”

“Why’s that?”

“Because I’ve been expecting you.”

“Sabine called you?”

He releases a small laugh. Shakes his head. “No. How is the old bird?”

Jenna doesn’t answer.

He lets out a sigh. “It’s pretty obvious why you’re here. You’ll remember, I’m one of the few people who’s read your file. I know where you’re from. Know about your foster family…”

She shakes her head like she hasn’t the foggiest. She doesn’t.

Michael scrutinizes her for a minute. “You really don’t know, do you?”

“Know what?”

Michael looks at the two men standing at attention near the doors.

“Give us the room.”

The men disappear.

Jenna jostles her arms, gives an annoyed look at the zip ties securing her wrists. Michael’s men restrained her either as a matter of protocol or because they didn’t know who she is. Michael picks up a scalpel from the aluminum table and approaches. He slips the razor-sharp blade under the zip tie, popping it off. He turns the scalpel, holding the blade now, offering her the haft. She takes it, cuts off the tie on her other wrist, then the ones on her ankles.

He knows what she can do with a blade. If he wanted her dead, he would’ve never given it to her, confirming again that it’s not The Corporation out to kill her.

“I take it you haven’t caught the news lately?” he says.

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