Smoky Mountain Setup. Paula Graves
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Название: Smoky Mountain Setup
Автор: Paula Graves
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Зарубежные детективы
isbn: 9781474039321
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“What?”
She slowly turned her gaze to meet his, her blue eyes blazing with a mixture of anger and pain. “I had a head injury. I couldn’t remember anything that happened right before or right after the explosion. But you seemed to think I should be able to pull those memories out of nothing to prove you weren’t lying. That wasn’t fair.”
“It wasn’t what you couldn’t remember that was the problem. It’s what you told the investigators.”
Her brow furrowed. “I didn’t tell them anything. I couldn’t. I didn’t remember anything.”
“Yet you somehow managed to remember me pushing you and the other team members to disobey the hold order.” His voice sharpened.
“I did no such thing.”
He shook his head. Why was she denying it? Did she think he hadn’t learned what she’d said in her official statement?
The agents who’d interrogated him had shown him a transcript of her testimony, signed off by Olivia, that had laid the whole mess on his shoulders.
Surely she remembered what she’d told the investigators. The words were certainly burned in his mind— “Agent Landry believed that waiting would allow the hostage-takers to escape, so he decided to countermand the official orders and go into the building.”
Her eyes narrowed. “What aren’t you telling me?”
“Nothing.” He was starting to feel sick, his dinner roiling in queasy waves in his gut. “It doesn’t matter.”
Her lips flattened with anger. “You’re right—it doesn’t. The real problem is that you never trusted me. Not really.”
How could he argue with her? His lack of faith—in anyone and anything—had long preceded Olivia’s presence in his life.
He closed his eyes. “You, of all people, know why I didn’t trust anyone easily.”
Her fingers closed around his jaw, tugging his face around, forcing him to open his eyes and look into her pain-filled gaze. “I am not her. I never was. I never will be.”
He didn’t know what to say in response. She was right. Of course she was right. And yet...
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