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Eva stayed far enough behind Julian Schmid and his passenger not to be seen, and Mitch watched intently.
“Do you know this area?” he asked her.
“Sure,” she said, skillfully tracking the car in front. After a while she glanced at him. “Are you missing your team?”
Mitch looked briefly at Eva and back to the road. “I hadn’t thought about it to be honest. Is that bad?”
Eva laughed. “No. But it’s early days. I bet you will miss them soon. It’s nice to have a team around you. I’m always on projects with different groups, but that suits me. I like to work alone.”
“Yeah, I suspect Adam does too but he seems to be coping,” Mitch said. “He was my translator until he upped and left!”
“See, you did need me after all,” she said, smiling.
They followed Schmid’s car for another few blocks befo
