Frozen with shock, Marina turned away, heart pounding. She called her friend Lena, who met her at a nearby café. “What if it’s not what it looks like?” Lena suggested. Torn between fear and suspicion, Marina agreed to follow him.
From a bookstore across the way, they watched Alexey and the woman part with a polite handshake. Then, Marina and Lena tailed him to his office building. Confused and tense, they watched him enter his boss’s office—leaving Marina with more questions than answers.