CHAPTER 33
Amanda was back in the old offices, the original home of EMS where the whole thing had begun, the house Mandy and Phillip had grown up in. They’d bugged out shortly after Jeffrey had left EMS. Too much history, too many paths leading back to them. Leaving here had been the first step in her itinerant lifestyle. Every six months to two years since, they’d moved the headquarters. Four years in Maine had been the longest, overlong in retrospect.
Clarice had the place airing out. The old farmhouse was fusty after all these years. Engineering’s cleaning crew had done a fine job, but the air was still twenty-five years old. It kept catching in her throat no matter how wide open the windows were.
Perhaps this wasn’t the best idea. The rambling farm house perched high on the hill on
