Chapter 12“Hello?”
“Dabir, it’s Aashiq. Have you found Steelgrave?” “Yes, it was as you said he came back to the apartment this morning. Two men were waiting for him in a car with U.S. government license plates; FBI, I guess. They stayed awhile then left; a little later, Steelgrave left. He took a taxi, and we followed but lost him in traffic. Then we went to the location of his phone to wait.”
Aashiq was thinking. “Why was the FBI there?” Then the thought came to him. “The FBI must not know where the protocol is and think Steelgrave might know.”
“Dabir, do not pick him up. Just follow him until I figure out what his part is in all of this.”
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I left the cafe Duomo with a bottle of wine and got into a taxi and headed for Maria’s apartment. I arrived at Maria’s close to 10:30 a.m. an
