Jun. 12th, 2020

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  CHAPTER TWELVE: Early July: The further adventures of Hector Miller; Sortition; Birmingham


Ambros woke the next morning to an epiphany. Marie lay beside him, almost awake. He groaned. His left leg cramped, or seemed to.


“What’s the matter?” she asked.


He sighed: “I dreamed that Otto Bauer was living in my office at the Salon.” He gestured: “In the ceiling. Crazy.”


“Yes...” she said, eyes more open and eyebrows raised.


“It got me thinking: Posse Comitatus obviously knew I’d respond to their fake note from Mark; they must have a bug in my office. They had to know I was there to find the note, before kidnapping Mark, right?”


“Yeah, I guess...”


“They couldn’t have been tailing me without my tech noticing. So...”


“So you better find that bug.” She rolled over: “I need more sleep. I have to cook for that party at the Country Club tonight...”


He kissed the back of her neck: “See ya.”


  

 

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