Shawn tested the strength of the handcuff. “You’re not his wife.”
She shook her head. “I lied. I needed him. Needed a believer. He was my operative.” She was amused. “I’m the one they should have taken. Not Darius.”
“What he told Calvin?”
“A mix. Truth, untruth. Nothing your people can use.”
She dropped the Makarov into the pocket of her jacket, watching as he tugged again at the handcuff binding him to the bed.
She bent toward him, speaking quietly. “I’m going over the border. I have to know you won’t stop me. Give me to your friends.”
He felt his foolish nakedness. With one helpless hand he covered himself. The plastic cuff bit at his wrist.
“Please,” he said, “Jesus, Dani, don’t”—he wrenched at the handcuff—“for Christ’s sake, not like this.”
“Count your blessings,” she said. “I’m leaving you alive. There was a time I thought I might not.” She looked around, to see what else she might need. “Later, I’ll call—tell the maid to check the room.”
Danielle blew a light kiss and was gone.
Moments later, she was back. “One day,” she said, “if I survive, I might come look for you. Your place, where Martha’s buried. Think about it. Tell me if you could live with a terrorist.”
With unringed fingers she made quotation marks around that final word.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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Macdonald, Gerard.
The prisoner’s wife / Gerard Macdonald.—1st ed.
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ISBN 978-0-312-59180-9 (hardback)
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1. Kidnapping—Fiction. 2. Intelligence officers—United States—Fiction. 3. State-sponsored terrorism—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6113.A255P75 2012
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2011050641
ISBN 9781250012432
First Edition: May 2012
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