Shadows Amongst Light (The Spy Who Loves Me) Read Free Page A

caught me off guard and took a step closer to me. And I tried not to show him how much that unnerved me. I was the one in charge here. The one with the gun. I wasn’t supposed to show fear. Another one of those tried and trues.
                  “That’s far enough. Don’t come any closer,” I told him in what I’d hoped was a confident voice, but it was clear he wasn’t afraid of me. He simply picked up my purse and handed it back to me, smiling as he walked past me. He knew he had me, so why didn’t he finish the job that he had come here tonight to do? Why not eliminate the problem while she was making it easy for you?
                  “What are you doing?” I asked when he would have walked away from me without so much as another word, inviting whatever trouble he represented back to my side.
                  “I’m leaving you...for now, that is. I think tonight is definitely my lucky night.”
                  “Oh? And why is that? Because I’m not cuffing you and hauling your butt off to jail or interrogation? Because I’m willing to let you go for now?”
                  “No, Cameron Alexander ,” he answered in that attractive voice that didn’t bother disguising just how full of it he considered me to be. “Because I had the pleasure of seeing you again. You were right, you know. I was following you. But you wouldn’t have taken me in. Sorry to burst your little bubble, sweetheart, but you weren’t very convincing. Maybe you’ll have better luck the next time we meet.”
                  With those words, he simply walked away from me unthreatened. Certainly not intimidated one little bit. And I sank down to my knees.
                  Who was this guy? How did he know me? I didn’t recognize him as any known fugitive as my instinct was telling me that he was. But surely, if I’d met him before, as his words had clearly implied, then he’d be...what? In custody? Yeah, I’d really proven that point tonight.
                  I’d acted as if this was my first day on the job. I wasn’t a novice. I’d been with The Organization for more than three years now. I knew how to handle a possible threat like this guy posed, for crying out loud. So who was this guy? More importantly, why was he following me?
                  Something in the way that he’d emphasized my last name made me believe that he knew about my marriage to Noah, although how anyone could have found out that fact was hard to imagine. Not even the higher-ups in the FBI, not even Adam Manning, Noah’s boss knew about it. We’d deliberately covered up our marriage and backtracked it to the point that we were certain no one would ever stumble across any record of its existence. So how had this guy found out?
                  I turned to look in the direction that he’d left but he was gone, but certainly not for good. Not if I could trust that uneasy feeling at the base of my spine that had never once let me down before.
                  I would face this guy again. It wasn’t over, not by a long shot. He’d only been playing with me tonight. I’d meet him again, no matter how desperate I was to get out of the game. Like it or not I still had unfinished business with him.
                  I had a decision to make before that time came. I had to decide how I was going to manage to stay alive.
                  I was still trying to understand why I’d reacted to him the way that I had when my cell phone sounded reminding me all over again, of just how late I was.
                  I’d made so many mistakes tonight leading up to this final one. Standing down against an enemy agent. If I hadn’t made the fateful decision to walk instead of listening to Noah, then I wouldn’t have ended up being followed by my mystery man in the first place. And I wouldn’t have ducked