Page 66 of Wait for Me

That was an impossible question.

If Logan had asked her if there was something sheneededto tell him, then her answer wasno.

Now she had to lie and lose her family—or what was left of it—all over again.

Or tell the truth and lose her job.

“I’m still looking for the truth myself,” Marie said. “There are so many moving parts that I’m not completely certain what’s going on.”

“What are you saying?” Logan sat up at the edge of the bed. He looked serious, and maybe a tad unhappy.

“You need to get some sleep. Jonas will be up soon, and we need to take turns to watch him.”

“Stop changing the subject, Marie.”

“This is not a good time.”

“When is?”

Marie didn’t reply.

“There’s never a good time for us, is there?” Logan asked. “We will always be keeping secrets from each other.”

“Not always.” Marie’s voice was cracking now. “But for now… Until we get to the bottom of it…”

“You’ll what?”

“I’ll report what happened tonight to my boss. They need to take it from there.” Marie got up from her armchair. She started to push it back to the sitting area.

“So there is nothing else you can tell me.”

“Not much.”

“That’s why our marriage failed.” Logan walked toward the door. “Your job is a giant black hole to me. I don’t even know if you’re really a translator. The way you took down the gunman… It was so fast, like a blur. Where did you get that dagger?”

“It was in a sheath on his thigh.”

“How did you know it was there?”

“I’ve seen that kind before.”

“At work?”

Marie nodded. “I see many things at work I can’t talk about, Logan. Most of them are classified. If I talk about them, people will die. We can’t have that.”

“Die? Do you work for the CIA?” Logan asked.

“Well, they do outsource translation to our company from time to time.”

Marie didn’t say that the CIA had actively tried to recruit her out of INTERPOL. Their reasoning was that she was an American citizen with French parents. They could use her help tracking down terrorists and working with multilingual informants. She turned them down because she didn’t want to stay in Europe anymore.

“There’re not the only ones who need translators. Every federal agency needs translators,” she explained. “There are translators in the State Department and even at the United Nations.”

“You used to do freelance translations,” Logan reminded her.

“Those were the days. I can’t go back now.”The country needs me.

“In many ways, you’re like soldier and I’m a civilian. Sometimes soldiers have to do things they can’t talk about to civilians.”

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