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Frozen?
Was he really frozen?
Then, outside…
The sniper, firing at us.
Us…
Me and Katya…
If the assassin worked for Mancini, why would he fire at his own informer?
?
Getting rid of the evidence?
The sniper said he never saw who hired him… It was done by message…
The message…
And I’ve still got the phone…
What did I do with it?
A moment’s thought then I stroll back into the lounge where my jacket hangs over the back of a chair. Retrieving the sniper’s cell, I tap in the PIN, tap into the messages then scroll through.
la dolce vita 1pm tues take the woman. M
The screen displays the contact as ‘Mancini’, but my antennae waving, I tap through again…
… and stare at the number displayed.
I know it well. Romano just called me on it.
It was a set-up.
The whole fucking thing was a set-up.
A performance.
Calculated to see Katya murdered and lay the blame elsewhere.
But…
Why?
Why would he do this?
And why would he send me to do this?
Romano…
He pays me to do his dirty work, but this turns my stomach.
CHAPTER SIX
Vibrating with tension, I take a few moments to get myself back under control. As I’m about to exit back for the lounge, it dawns on me that I stink. I’m soaked in sweat. My shirt sour.
