— Who is Alaf? — Salin asked.
I looked at him.
— My cousin. You probably remember him… from the mission we had on our honeymoon.
— Ah… He's a consultant.
— Yeah. He's… different. The kind of person who either doesn't know how to use words, or uses them too well. But I assigned him to try negotiating with Vitória. I knew things could get out of hand. I just didn't expect Alessa to get out of the building unnoticed.
— Getting out is easy. Just get into a resident's car… Getting in is the hard part — he commented.
I stared at him, surprised.
How long had he been thinking about that?
— Do you feel trapped in Goden? — I asked, concerned.
— No… It's just the fear that someone might break in and take over.
— Ah…
I'd been thinking about that too. Especially with the suspicion that someone's betraying me. I think about it a lot. But tightening security now, when I don't know who it is, won't change much.
