Chapter 7 - Cora
Cora felt a strange sense of surrealness creep over her as she looked into Gage's eyes and shook his hand. She'd only been undercover once before, in a minor role as a drug buyer during another agent's sting operation, and she wasn't used to giving a fake name when she introduced herself.
Also, being in the same room with Gage and feeling his palm pressed against hers after spending so many months staring at his photograph made her world feel like it had turned upside down. Even though she'd dealt with plenty of criminals in her career, she somehow expected Gage to be different—to exude some otherworldly aura of sinister menace.
Now she realized how silly she'd been to think that. He'd killed her partner and he was a bad person, to be sure, but he was still only a perso
