Chapter 14 - Cora
Cora sat up in bed for the rest of the night, hugging her knees to her chest. Her thoughts whirled and flapped inside her skull in a frantic cloud, like a flock of trapped sparrows.
Don was right. She'd been foolish to think of Gage as anything other than what his actions had proven him to be—a savage, black-hearted predator. She'd thought that trying to understand and even empathize with her target would make her a better and more effective undercover agent.
Instead, all it had made her was a bigger sucker. And now she was about to pay a horrible price for it.
She thought about Don's offer to pull her out. Earlier tonight, she'd refused without a moment's hesitation, but now that everything seemed to have blown up in her face, it seemed like the only decision that ma
