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As soon as I said it, all the blood drained from her face.
“…what?” she whispered in horror.
“Alistair – that guy we met my first week in London,” I said. “He was the one who got me out of the Swedish military.”
Rachel shook her head frantically. “No – he told me he looked for you! He told me he couldn’t find you!”
Now I was the shocked one –
And I quickly became enraged.
“He knew exactly where I was,” I seethed.
“Why didn’t you TELL ME you were in MI6?!” she cried out in desperation.
“I was in prison – ”
“NO – before you LEFT! WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME?!”
Her reaction was almost unhinged. Something was deadly wrong, but I didn’t know what it was – other than Alistair had betrayed me and lied about my whereabouts the last four years.
“He said if I ever told you I was working for him, you’d be forced out of your job,” I explained. “That’s why I never told y– ”
She threw up.
She literally doubled over, got her head over the side of the bed at the last second, and vomited on the floor.
“RACHEL!” I shouted in shock.
When she wiped off her mouth and finally looked back at me, tears were streaming down her cheeks.
“When you came to see me at my house, I was wearing a ring,” she said, her voice trembling. “You asked if I was engaged, and I said you didn’t know him – remember?”
Of course I remembered.
I’d asked her who the guy was, and she’d said –
She’d…
No.
Oh GOD, NO –
“I lied,” she whispered, “because he told me to.”
I knew what she was about to say next, and it felt like the earth would open up and swallow me whole.
Tears ran down Rachel’s face as she whispered, “Alistair was my fiancé.”
PART VII
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Rachel
Alistair had always had a thing for me. We’d met seven years before when I’d debriefed him and some of my other bosses on one of my first jobs for MI6.
He probably thought he was being subtle about his intentions, but it was rather obvious. Overly complimentary of my appearance… a few veiled passes, delivered in such a way that he could say he just wanted to discuss work over drinks or a meal…
