Chapter 40Jane
I MISS ASHLEY. I didn't know how much until my job took me back to DC. I have plenty of time to miss him because I've been shuffled into the revised Homeland Security operation. Immigration, the border, airline travel and reheated rhetoric has generated the need for new reports on the same old, same old. A new crisis in North Korea has everyone's attention except mine. No one wanted my opinion, in spite of the analysis I'd prepared for the newcomers. So I do nine-to-five, go to my parents' place most weekends and wait for news from Linda.
The waiting has always been hard. Even with the portal, waiting in the school hallway was the worst. When we were making a difference, I could tolerate waiting. And I had Ash right next to me. My mother asked me if I'd started dating agai
