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“Not much of a spy, isn’t he?”

“Let’s do it then,” he said and took a step out of the forest thicket24.

As soon as they were in the clear, the man acknowledged them with a nod and started to walk to a grey minivan that parked near the gas station’s minimart’s entrance. He opened the driver’s door and the passenger’s door. Then he got in the driver’s seat, closed the door but left the passenger door open.

“I guess that’s our cue25,” Mark said.

They walked to the van and climbed on the back.

“You’re to follow the instructions,” the man said as soon as they closed the door and gave them a large manila envelope. “There are two passports, the car keys, and some money.”

“We have a car,” Lizzy said.

“Not anymore,” the man said. “Our people are taking it from your cottage as we speak.”

“Why?” Mark asked.

“You’ve been seen driving it and the police has the number license.”

“Where’s our new ride then?”

“You are sitting in it,” the man said and opened his door.

“Wait,” Lizzy said. “Are you leaving? What’s your name?”

“You’re to follow the instructions,” the man said and left the car.

They watched him walking fast across the gas station and getting in a black pick-up truck – parked on the other side – which took off the second the man was in.

“That was some spy work right there,” Lizzy smiled.

Mark looked inside the envelope.

“Well, it’s all in there: the money, the passports, and the car keys.”

“Where are the instructions?”

Mark took out a white sheet of paper and looked at it. “I guess this is it.”

***

When they drove back to the cottage in their new car, their old car was gone. They entered the cottage and found a new laptop on the kitchen table and a brand-new iPhone with a charger.

“It says here that we need to turn on the computer. There will be a link to a Zoom meeting on the desktop,” Mark was reading from the piece of paper.

“Alright,” Lizzy said, opening the device. “We could’ve done it on the phone though.”

The computer screen lit up and they saw an empty desktop with only one folder named The Link.

“That’s foolproof26,” Lizzy said with a smile.

She clicked on the folder and saw a link. She called it up on the screen. The software began to upload the Zoom meeting. The host had already started the meeting, but both his or her camera and microphone were deactivated.