Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Bourne Initiative (Jason Bourne series)(121)



She watched silently as he doused the table with the liquid, then ran a thin line of it across the lab’s floor to where the Angelmaker’s body lay. There were a number of devices that created a flame in the lab, but Bourne deliberately chose the most primitive of them—long wooden matches.

Scraping the head of one along the side of the box, he watched the flame flare up. He wished he were the kind of person who believed in God; he wished he knew a prayer.

He composed his own. “Good-bye, Anjelica,” he whispered. “You will be remembered.”

Then he threw the match onto the center of the glistening table.

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