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ChapterThirty-One
Reese
Now
“Tell me everything, Sheridan. Starting with where Brennan is.”
“How could I possibly know that?”
“Because you betrayed me. You’ve betrayed all of us.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” His eyes are blood red. “I don’t know where he is. I swear.”
“I don’t believe you.”
“Why would I know where he is? How would I know?”
“Because you’ve sold us out to Russia—"
“What?”
“It’s over, Sheridan. I saw you meet with the cutout in New York. You’re on video. I saw you. Don’t try to deny it anymore.”
The blood drains from his face.
“You leaked Brennan’s motorcade information, didn’t you? You were hoping the Russians would take him out. What better opportunity could you ever have been given? An empty road in the middle of the night.”
“No! Jesus, no! How could you even—”
“How did you arrange your meeting in New York? Did he come to you, or did you go to him?”
“I swear, I have no idea what you’re talking about!”
“When did you decide to become a spy?”
His lips are quivering. “Reese—”
“Don’t you dare say my name!” I bellow. It’s cutting me to the quick, and he must know it. He’s always known how to slide under my skin and into my heart, make a home there for himself. I’ve been watching you. He knew exactly how to play me.
Anatoly leans against the door, watching the two of us. He hasn’t said a word. “Get the video,” I tell him. “Let him see what we know.”
Sheridan trembles when I play it for him.
“There you are, searching for the cutout. Now you’re side by side. See how friendly you two are? You had so much to talk about, didn’t you?”
When the video is over, he squeezes his eyes shut. “That was just some guy at the bar. I was getting beers, that’s all, I swear.”
“That’s General Adrian Quinten. You know exactly who he is.”
Sheridan blinks fast. “NATO,” he whispers. “Deputy head of Allied Command. He was at the White House last month—”
“See? You do know him. Tell me, how did you guys first link up? In the Pentagon? Did you meet him on a Joint Staff assignment?”
I need to cross-check Sheridan’s service history against Quinten’s, pinpoint exactly where their connection began.
“I—I didn’t recognize him at the bar—”
“Bullshit!” I snarl. “You know he’s working for President Kirilov! You know he’s running the spy inside Brennan’s inner circle! And you know that every decision Brennan has made for the past six months, Quinten has given right to Kirilov!”
