Paulo Matos requested a meeting on a Thursday morning, which was how Camila knew it was serious.
Paulo did not request meetings. He sent brief messages. He appeared at the edge of situations and provided information in the quiet way of someone who understood that the value of intelligence was in its delivery as much as its content. A formal meeting request — with a time and a location — was Paulo communicating that what he had was not a brief-message situation.
Leonardo called her before Paulo could.
"I know," she said, when he identified himself.
A pause. "He told you?"
"He sent a meeting request. I inferred."
Another pause. "He found out who Sofia has been meeting with."
"Who?"
"A man named Rodrigo Mendes."
She sat down.
Rodrigo Mendes. She knew that name the way she'd known Va
