CIA Fall Guy (16 page)

“What was the riddle?”

“Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.”

“The Trojan horse? A traitor in the middle of a gathering of men,” she said.

Beth squeezed his hands. Was everything that had happened since she'd been approached at the dojo a karmic payback?

David leaned down to kiss her but she twisted away. She wasn't ready, ready to risk love. She wheeled around, yanked open the car door, and got in. She waved through the glass as she turned on the engine.

David motioned her to roll down the window, which she did only a couple of inches.

“Go to Langley — there's a pass for you,” he said. “Kathleen wants to tell us something.”

“Is it a riddle?” Beth asked.

Beth drove slowly to Langley with no attempts to “catch” yellow lights. She wasn't in a hurry to face David again. She had folded into herself so many years ago. How could she unfold now?

Back at Langley Beth was met at the front by Kathleen and escorted to the cafeteria, where David waited for them at a table.

The moment they had sat down, Kathleen said, “I'm becoming co-director with Charles of our section. Thanks to Beth's escape I finally got a chance to prove I could do operations.”

Beth and David congratulated Kathleen. Beth felt pleased that even more good had come out of all this.

“Will it be hard to return to Philadelphia?” Kathleen asked Beth.

“Go back to being a civilian?”

David and Kathleen laughed at her use of the word.

“I'll probably still be somewhat in the loop,” Beth said.

She didn't wait for them to ask how. Instead she added, “I'm planning to hold David to his proposal.”

David looked up from his food, his fork half-raised to his open mind.

“My marriage proposal? What made you change your mind? A half hour ago you gave me the brushoff.”

Beth smiled. “Driving here I realized that, if I could jump out of a perfectly good plane — not once but twice …”

“… and a train,” David said.

“I could take the leap and marry again.”

David leaned towards her for the kiss she had missed out on earlier. Again she pulled back.

“Can I keep the gun?” she asked.

“Consider it an engagement gift,” he said.

And now she met him halfway — and they finally really kissed — in the cafeteria of the CIA!

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