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That was something I could never regret.
“Is someone going to check in on Reinier? Make sure he doesn’t die?” I questioned. “I can’t imagine Star would be okay with him wasting away before she can get her hands on him.”
I intended on bringing her home sooner than it would take Reinier to die, but I wanted to keep our bases covered.
She nodded. “He’ll be monitored. Star would want to be involved—you reminded me of that back at Langley. I shouldn’t have acted as impulsively as I did.”
I studied her. “Wasit impulsive? You said I should be glad you were there because it stopped me from getting my ass killed, but were you there for me? Or for Reinier?”
A smile danced on her lips. “Couldn’t I have been there for both?” I watched as she accepted a drink order I hadn’t heard her make, and only when the flight attendant had left, did she continue, “Reinier had the entire building evacuated. Triggered a whole protocol as if we’d had some kind of accidental spillage in one of the labs just to make sure you and the coders were on your own there.”
“Was Riggs in on it?” I rasped.
“No.”
“Why was she there?”
That smile I detested made another reappearance. “She was your handler.”
“Was?” Fuck. “Meaningyouare now?”
“That hasn’t been decided by my higher-ups yet.”
I grabbed my water bottle and nearly ripped off the cap in my haste to drink some. Mind racing as I gulped it down, I emptied it before I realized it. “Why are you telling me this?”
“I’ve been told that I can answer any questions you ask of me.”
“By whom?”
“People with far more authority than the director of the CIA.”
“Who?”
“Leaders of the Union.”
As annoying as she was, this was good.
I could get answers and that would help Star.
“What is the Union?”
“A group older than the Freemasons who serve the people.”
I wanted to scoff, but I didn’t. Her eyes lit up like a Christmas tree with how ardently she believed that BS.
“How do they serve the people?”
“They bring neutrality and non-bias where politics does the opposite.”
“People vote for politicians,” I pointed out, to which she snickered.
“It’s cute that you believe that. Politicians get into power through super PACs which are funded by companies that don’t give a damn about anything other than the policies that will keep their businesses intact and running on low taxes.
“You think our current method works when the so-called popular vote means nothing if the electoral colleges don’t sync up? The population and its wants are irrelevant. Elections are fodder for the masses.
“The Union makes sure that peopleareprotected.”
“It functions only in the US?”
