Zach's POV
The next day at work, Sarah gestured to me to ask a few questions.
"Zach, can I have the full profile of Cammie?" she asked in a professional voice.
"Why do you need it?" I asked.
"Oh, I just think things have become rather interesting and I want to read up further on it," she smiled at me.
"I see," that's what I said on the surface, but in my heart, I was starting to suspect her. Sarah was a lab expert who usually left herself out of fieldwork as much as possible. Why did she want to see Cammie's profile all of a sudden?
"I'm not really free now, can I pass it to you tomorrow?" I decided to test her.
"Oh – um, yeah sure. It's not urgent anyways. Thanks!" Her expression changed slightly but she tried her best to hide it.
I smiled briefly back at her and returned to my office. That was kind of weird. I accessed her files and read more about Sarah's profile in the CIA database.
She came in after she graduated from university, as aspiring and bright girl who excelled in her sciences in school. Was that who she really was? Was she someone different? Looks like I can't let my guard down in front of her as well.
Tiger's POV
"Sir, he was not free today to pass me the full profile of his wife. What should I do now?" Sarah reported, looking downcast on not being able to complete the task I had assigned her to do.
"We will not be deterred by that. Here's a bug, with a tracking device in it as well. I want you to plant this on him so that we can access more information about his family. Maybe I can use his son to do something…" I handed her the bug, making sure no one else had seen us.
"He's really sharp; I don't think I can plant on him physically. Can I plant it on his phone instead?" she countered, looking worried.
"That's not that bad an idea. I can hear every conversation he will be having. Proceed with the plan."
Zach's POV
Sarah came back a bit earlier before lunch ended, with a smile on her face. I was observing her from the shades of my office. She went to her desk and frowned after looking at her phone. Did something happen? She looked around and seeing as there was no one else around, she walked towards my office. I strolled back quietly to my desk, pretending to do work.
"*Knock Knock*" she knocked the door sharply twice.
"Come in."
"Zach, can I borrow your phone? I need to make an urgent call back home but my phone doesn't seem to be working. And there's no one else around yet so – "
I cut her off and said, "I get it. It's just a phone. Go ahead. Just return it to me after you're done."
Before handing her the phone, I looked into her eyes and smiled warmly at her. She tried to smile back but for some reason, she looked very apprehensive as well.
After ten minutes, she handed the phone back to me. She thanked me and I just nodded and took the phone back. When she was using the phone, I made a mental list of the possible things she could do with my phone – if she was planning to do something with it. She could check through my text messages, but the phone I had lent her was my personal one and not the work one, so she wouldn't find anything inside. As said, I didn't leave any traces of my work in the personal phone as well. After making a few more possibilities and eliminating quite a few, I deduced that she would try to install a bug.
After she left the room, I continued observing her from the shades of my office. She took her pouch and went to the lift lobby. I followed her, careful not to make a single sound. She took her phone out and sent a text message. Now I could accurately deduce that something fishy was going on. Didn't she just tell me that her phone wasn't working?
I left before she could notice me and investigated the phone. I disassembled the phone and true enough; I found a tiny bug that looked as small and thin as a SIM card. No wonder she thought I wouldn't discover this. I took out a bug I had that was similar and left the room with it in my hand. I walked to Sarah and said, "Hey, just to be sure, nothing happened with your family right? And I managed to find some free time so here's Cammie's profile."
"No, my sister is delivering so I just wanted to make sure everything was alright. Thanks!" she smiled.
"Oh I see, Congratulations!" I patted her on the back and deftly slotted the bug cum tracker into her pocket.
I stayed in the office the whole day and made sure I was ready to record any important conversation I could use as evidence against Sarah when she left the office. She passed Cammie's profile to a man with a gruff voice. She called him Sir, which leads me to believe that she is working for him, which also means that she is a mole in the CIA. Why is he so interested about Cammie? Is she working as a mole for him? I had to go demand the truth from Maroon before things really went out of hand.
Cammie's POV
Tiger came back looking even worse than yesterday and after he spoke briefly with Moco he asked me to enter the room. I entered the room, raising my guard. Tiger was sitting backfacing me and Moco was standing at the door, his cold eyes never betraying his emotions.
"Elaina, you know I think we really have become close with these three years of working together. Do you know how saddening this whole situation is?" he sighed and turned around. Before I had time to react, Moco lashed out at me from behind and I lost consciousness.
