"Oh, you knew I was there?" Melina said, this time really surprised.
"And watching us through the sights of your rifle. Why do you think I was wearing armor?" I asked. "Imagine how many ex-wives would've loved to have had their ex-husbands in their sights like that..." Both women laughed at that. "Okay, so why did you shoot the bastard?"
Melina shifted slightly and I noticed her eyes getting a faraway look as she stared forward, toward the fireplace and the kitchen door. It was Laura that began.
"Our parents, our birth parents," Laura said, "were CIA agents themselves, in the days the Iron Curtain was still up and the Cold War was going on. They were in East Germany and were betrayed to the East German Stasi. Dr. Heinz tried to hide them and help them get out, but they were found... and
