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Jacob’s Point Of View
Kate was like a cat on a hot tin roof, but who wouldn’t be when immersed in the darkness of a former life such as I’d had? I couldn’t be entirely honest with her about Karin because what really happened back then was still highly classified.
Kate knew enough. It was essential that I didn’t hide from having executed Klaus’s wife, so I was satisfied for now. I was being unwillingly drawn into a life I had abandoned, knowing that Sean was delightedly reeling me in.
By the time we landed, Klaus had been moved to Bonn, the Cold War capital of West Germany. The German intelligence services had made discrete facilities available to Sean Manners, a small contingent of his interrogators, and a polygraph specialist he brought from the UK.
Kate and I had left home in a hurry, completely unplanned, and with little clue what we were being confronted with. Catherine got on the next flight behind us, checking into our hotel about twelve hours later.
When Sean explained how they moved and held Klaus, I felt his security measures were overkill, but it wasn’t my place to comment. When he visited our hotel suite, Catherine took Alicia so that Kate and I could speak freely with him.
He paced around our room like a caged tiger, glancing at me, then at my wife. I sat calmly waiting for a fight to start.
“Why is Kate here, Jacob?”
“You seem jittery, Sean.”
“I fucking am, mate. Klaus’s return is when our past comes back to haunt us. Answer my question. Why is Kate here?”