“I have to go to Washington,” she muttered.
He looked back at the boxes. “What do you mean, you ‘have’ to go to Washington?”
“I - I’m being transferred.” She avoided her eyes.
“Transferred... what the hell are you talking about?”
“Word spread about me being able to check counterfeits fast, and they want me for a new project they’re working on at Treasury.”
Brenda looked dumbfounded, then suspicious. Jade avoided her gaze.
“What the hell happened in Germany?” she said. “Who were you meeting with there?”
“I can’t tell you, that,” she said, pulling some file folders from her drawer. Before she and Lanniter had parted, he told her that absolutely, under no circumstances, was she to reveal anything to Brenda. The cover story was that her skills in counterfeit recognition were needed for
