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Me: Yes. We’re still ascertaining how.
Unknown: Belyaev was feeding us intel.
Me: On?
Unknown: Art trafficking from looting during Operation: Enduring Freedom.
Whatever I’d expected him to say, it wasn’t that.
Unknown: For obvious reasons.
My breath hitched.
Me: Me?
Unknown: Yes. That was why you were swallowed up by their trafficking operation, no?
Well, that and the double agent in our ranks, but I wasn’t about to share anything of that nature with him.
Me: You were trying to find me?
Unknown: Yes. Belyaev was an old friend of Aleks’. From school.
Me: They were friends?!
Unknown: Yes. Aleks, like your mother, was a double agent.
Me: You knew he was a Sparrow?
Unknown: Yes. He was a Brother first.
Unknown: Belyaev had a bride from the Sparrow slaves. When Aleks learned that she died, he suspected Belyaev was behind her death and used it as leverage against him.
Unknown: Before that point, Aleks was well-positioned but not highly ranked.
Me: Why didn’t you tell me this when we started?
Unknown: I wanted to see what you’d uncover on your own.
Me: And what I’d share with you?
Me: You were testing me.
Unknown: This comes as a surprise?
Me: It shouldn’t. You didn’t know their deaths were linked?
Unknown: I don’t see why. Belyaev was visiting Ohio at the time of his death. He passed away from a heart attack in a hotel room in Cincinnati.
Me: He didn’t. He died in a car crash. Where did you get that information from?
Unknown: It’s irrelevant.
Me: It isn’t if someone fed you false intel.
Unknown: I’ll deal with it.
Unknown: Are you close to finding his killer?
