Mikhail took Keith back to the holding cell and expected Louis to have returned when he got back to the interrogation room to lock it up. She was still there, seated at the same spot he left her. Assuming she didn’t know the way back, he called out to her.
“I have to lock up, Ms. Marshal”
“You used to nag that I wouldn’t acknowledge you by your name. Why won’t you call me by mine, Mikhail?”
It was hard to swallow the huge lump in his throat. His head buzzed with thoughts but he concluded he wasn’t falling for it again. He said nothing and the two stayed like that until she finally stood up. She walked past him and he locked the door.
[Meet me at this hotel by 7 if you want to talk]
When he looked back, she was already walking away. It was almost like he hallucinated her voice until
