I wanted to pull away, remind him that I was a big girl, a highly trained operative, a spy – that I’d been training for this mission my entire life, and I wasn’t going to...

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

She spoke throught her teeth. “Almost, dear. What were the real words you used? The bad words. It’s okay to say them again, just this once.” I shrugged, “fine. I said’. . . just ’cause...