Chapter 244

FIONA SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID it, but...it was out there now.

Her hands shook. She hadn't said those words to anyone. Ever. Not that it mattered now, because when the Marshalls saw the news and the Missing Person Alert, her life was as good as gone. Or at least this one was. Her face was on the news. Nova-and others-would be looking for her. She didn't think plastic surgery would hide her identity at this point, not that she wanted to go under the knife. Or could.

She wasn't safe. She'd just been exposed in the very worst of ways. Sure, knowing someone had seen her moments of passion with Marco in her very home was a violation of her privacy, but this was an exposure that could kill her.

"You...what?" Marco continued to stare at her.

"I've been in the Witness Protection program since I was nineteen." She rubbed her palms over her knees. How much should she say? How much could she tell him? She'd begun. It was had to figure out where to stop except...the ending.

"Why?"

"Long story."