For a second my heart lurched. Had my lover breached the walls of Langley? And then I laughed at myself. Mark Vincent would do whatever it took to get the job done, but he’d never do anything so foolhardy in the normal course of events.
It was probably just one of the junior officers who had been assigned to me.
“Send him in, Janet.”
The door opened, and DB Cooper walked into my office, singing slightly off-key, “Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday, dear Quinton….”
He carried a birthday cake with white frosting and my name across the top in blue icing. With him were a few other officers, including Syd Cooper and Lyn Raffles.
Everyone was grinning broadly, and I couldn’t help grinning in response. “There’s only one candle.”
“I didn’t want to set the cake on fi
