CHAPTER NINE
The afternoon after Peter and his colleagues left for their week-long retreat at Thompson’s hunting cabin, Angie sat in her small apartment thinking.
She’d given Peter a lift in his Toyota Avalon to the Capitol, from where the staff was going to drive to the retreat in two SUVs, then returned to her place to spend the afternoon watching some videos she’d rented at Blockbuster. After dinner, Angie wanted to read a horror novel. This was the beginning of the August recess, and Angie wanted to get her calm week off to a good start since she’d been assigned to stay back to manage the Washington office.
Despite her intentions, Angie found herself too distracted to get into the plot of the movie. Her mind kept going back to the conversation she’d had with Peter at the cabin about
