Emma’s mind raced. It was exactly the kind of double-blind she’d been trained for. But why would he tell her?
“Dad,” she said, letting the word hang between them like a loaded weapon. -MyFamilyPies- Emma Hix - Secret Agent Step Dad...
He wasn’t just early. He was looking directly up at her window. Emma’s mind raced
A heavy boot sounded on the stairs below. Two floors down. Syndicate cleaners. “Dad,” she said, letting the word hang between
“This one has the real schematics,” he said. “The one in your boot is a decoy laced with a location tracker. Give Control the fake. Let him run. Take this one to the man who sells falafel at the corner of Dizengoff and Ben Yehuda in Tel Aviv. Tell him ‘the accountant sends his regards.’ He’ll get it to the right people. The people who won’t sell it to a dozen different armies.”
She almost smiled. Then she vanished into the gray Vienna rain, a fake drive in her boot, a real one in her heart, and the strangest, most dangerous ally she’d ever known covering her escape.
“Then I have a counter-offer.” His eyes flicked to the stairwell behind her, then back. “The Syndicate is going to kill Control tonight. They already flipped his assistant. The ‘abort’ order wasn’t to save you. It was to strand you here. With me.”