“But they’re not,” she said. “Are they?”
“No.”
“I guess I should go, too,” Abbey murmured. “It’s time.”
She took his face in her hands and kissed him goodbye, long and slow. She should have left it there, but she couldn’t stop herself from asking the question that was in her heart. “Will I ever see you again?”
He didn’t answer. She didn’t expect him to answer. He simply stared into her eyes from a place she couldn’t go.
She eased away from him, already feeling lonely. She got off the bench and went to the railing that overlooked the lights of the old town and the dark snake of the river. Somewhere in the night, she heard a distant echo of music. She took in a breath of sweet, cool air as the wind rustled her hair. She could still taste him on her lips.
“You’re not a killer, Jason,” she told him quietly, without looking back. “That’s not who you really are. That’s never been who you are. Someday, I hope you’ll see that.”
Abbey turned around for one last look.
Bourne was already gone.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Brian Freeman is the bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including the Jonathan Stride and Frost Easton series. His Audible original, The Deep, Deep Snow, was #12 on the New York Times audio bestseller list. His novel Spilled Blood won the award for Best Hardcover Novel in the International Thriller Writers Awards, and his novel The Burying Place was a finalist for the same award. His debut novel, Immoral, won the Macavity Award and was a finalist for the Gold Dagger, Edgar, Anthony, and Barry Awards for Best First Novel. Freeman lives in Minnesota with his wife.
Robert Ludlum was the author of twenty-seven novels, each one a New York Times bestseller. There are more than 225 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. He was the author of The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Chancellor Manuscript, and the Jason Bourne series--The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum--among other novels. Ludlum passed away in March 2001.
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