Chapter 13
“I thought the Pacific Northwest was supposed to be so green,” Duane was looking down out of the Bell JetRanger helicopter Sofia’d rented in Yakima. After days of complete immersion in Venezuelan intelligence gathering, she had needed a break. And, gathering her courage, she’d invited Duane along to the family home.
At first it had been for support, something she hadn’t realized until after she’d asked, otherwise she never would have. She wanted to go see Nana, but really needed someone to bolster her courage to face the rest of her family. Sofia had never needed anyone, but this time she did.
But she’d also wanted him to see her home…except she hadn’t warned him. And still hadn’t as they flew west-southwest toward Dundee, Oregon.
“Yakima is in eastern Washington,” she expla
