“Mission,” he repeats, as though he’s trying to wrap his mind around the idea.
“You were more than I bargained for, Rob.”
He shakes his head. “The story you told me about your parents dying when you were young—”
“The dying part was true,” she says. “The other details of the story, not so much.”
“It was all a lie.”
She opens her mouth to argue, but then changes her mind at the last second. “I’m sorry,” she says instead. “But this is my job. It always was. I was supposed to learn who the informant was. We needed to find out who was trying to frame Aleks.”
He flinches. “So you both are buying into what Makarova says? That he has nothing to do with the disappearances?”
“None of them disappeared, Rob,” she says softly. “You just have to look for them in the right places.”
“I mean that,
