[ Though it gives her more of a hint about what he's been up to since leaving the Service — when it became harder for her to follow his exploits, to pick him up in the background of various photographs in the newspaper or hovering during the occasional presidential address broadcast. Not that she'd been looking, of course.
The question then becomes who he's protecting now, if he's here — some rich friend of the Balfours, no doubt. Someone who pays well and doesn't probe too deeply.
Her breath snags, briefly, when he references all the years that have passed since she even found herself in a position to pick up his call. (Maybe if she'd known it was him, she wouldn't have.) ]
Did something happen? [ Something that compelled him to reach out to her now, of all times. She has to consider that possibility, rather than the one where he's called for a reason she isn't willing to interrogate all that closely. ]
no subject
[ Though it gives her more of a hint about what he's been up to since leaving the Service — when it became harder for her to follow his exploits, to pick him up in the background of various photographs in the newspaper or hovering during the occasional presidential address broadcast. Not that she'd been looking, of course.
The question then becomes who he's protecting now, if he's here — some rich friend of the Balfours, no doubt. Someone who pays well and doesn't probe too deeply.
Her breath snags, briefly, when he references all the years that have passed since she even found herself in a position to pick up his call. (Maybe if she'd known it was him, she wouldn't have.) ]
Did something happen? [ Something that compelled him to reach out to her now, of all times. She has to consider that possibility, rather than the one where he's called for a reason she isn't willing to interrogate all that closely. ]