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She smiled.
Yeah, not on her turf.
NOLA was hers, and the CIA wasn’t allowed to play on US soil.
This was FBI territory, and she wasn’t letting them do shit like this.
“Not I, pussy cat,” she said. “I don’t steal guns. Now, Hunters…the people you tried to bury, and you sold out to the Russian dude…they might find your gun hoarding upsetting. Russians, Artemis? Did you not learn anything about the Russians from the COLD WAR? The KGB is NOT our friend. You can’t trust a Russian as far as you can toss him. You’re lucky I’m here to handle you.”
She laughed.
“If it comes down to me or my mom, you can kill her. She’s not the same anymore. Her mind is gone. It would be merciful to end her.”
Elizabeth shrugged.
She knew a mind game when she smelled one, and this woman was the queen of them.
“Okay. I’ll put her down for you. I’m a killer like that, Artemis, and I’m fine with it,” she said, playing that bluff.
That was all it took.
“Mom, come here,” she said.
Elizabeth tsked her.
“Uh, I wouldn’t do that,” Elizabeth said. “See, we wired her to blow,” she admitted, even though all they did was put a vest with wires attached to it on her. It was Kevlar, and to protect her, not blow.
Elizabeth was sworn to protect the citizens of the United States of America. So, she would. Artemis was a double agent and sold her soul to the Russians.
She was a traitor.
A communist sympathizer—and that was her legacy with the CIA.
“You’re going to be fucked up by my boss when he hears about that.”
She laughed.
“First, you went rogue, and they cut all ties to you. Do you think Bob is going to protect you after you’ve been blackmailing him?”
She stared, but Elizabeth saw it.
Fear.
“Secondly, did you not see the news today? Bob, the traitor, too, was in a bad accident today. Car versus car, head-on. The other driver was okay, and oddly, disappeared back to The Hoover Building...”
She blinked.
Oh, hell.
She’d been outplayed.
“Fuck you.”
Elizabeth smiled.
“Checkmate, bitch. You nearly cost me and my husband our lives in Columbia. You worked for El Gato and told him about Remington’s family. Not to mention paid for the guerillas who captured US Marines and tortured them. The Major has never forgiven you for that.”
She was trying to think of a way out.
