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Seventy Five

Author: Khandasi
last update Last Updated: 2025-02-17 16:23:22

I stare at the phone for a moment, unable to move or even breathe. It’s burnt, probably from the fire Alessandro and his men set at the warehouse where Morales died, but it’s unmistakably the same phone. I don’t know what to make of it.

How did they find it?

Didn’t Alessandro get rid of it?

Do they know something?

Do they know Morales is missing—or dead, perhaps?

Who am I kidding? They have his phone. They definitely know he’s missing.

But Dell told me he handled it. He said he managed to steer their suspicions elsewhere, that he made them believe Morales left town for an assignment.

Did he lie to me?

No, he wouldn’t. Dell and I have had our differences, but he wouldn’t do something that would jeopardize both of us. If I go down for Morales’s death, it won’t be long before he goes down too.

“I can tell from your silence that you know whose phone this is,” Agent Carter says. “And you might be considering our deal.”

I look up at him, trying to maintain a poker face, but I don’t know how
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