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“Alright, at least we know he’s legit. Thanks for looking.”
“By the way, I also asked about Rachel.”
“What?!”
I was alarmed – but also intensely curious.
“Yeah,” Gunnar said. “And there’s no record of her. Anywhere.”
“What does that mean?”
“According to my guy, it means that Rachel is deep in the shadows, bro,” Gunnar said in a wary voice. “Like, a ghost.”
Alistair’s words came back to me:
You would be entirely separate from the main organization – a ghost.
The fact that Rachel wasn’t in the databases made sense –
But Gunnar’s contact had gone looking for both Rachel and Alistair at the same time.
“Could looking for Rachel have triggered any sort of alarm?” I asked nervously.
“No.”
“How do you know?”
“Cuz my homie wrote the alarms. He’d know if somebody set a trap.”
“Okay,” I said, relieved. “Tell your guy thanks for me.”
“Already did,” Gunnar said cheerfully. “Sent him a nice package of Bubba Kush for his help.”
“You sent him marijuana?!”
“Relax, dude – I ordered it off the dark web. He’s got a private mail drop that can’t be traced back to him. It’s cool.”
I shook my head. If international security was actually in the hands of these people…
But then I remembered everything Gunnar had just done for me. “Thanks again. I really appreciate it.”
“No problem, my brother! Happy to help!”
“So what do you want to do now?”
“Well, if you were single, I’d say we could go to the red light district and spend some time with a couple of beautiful ladies – ”
“NO. I’m not going to cheat on Rachel.”
“Yeah, I figured. How about a pot brownie in one of the cafés, then?”
“No, thank you.”
Gunnar sighed. “Alright… I guess we just go get drunk.”
68
Gunnar and I hit a nearby bar, where we drank and talked about our days together in Special Forces. I finally called it a night around 11 PM.
