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As she prepared to walk out the door, she turned and handed him a thumb drive.
    “What’s this?”
    “A recording of a conversation between Marcus and Dmitri Nardiv. It’s a bit hard to hear, but maybe someone in IT can clean it up.”
    “And how did you come by it?” Ivan asked.
    Shrugging her shoulders. “I had to run some errands before I left New York and I saw Marcus acting suspicious so I followed him into a bar. He was sitting in the back talking to Dmitri, so I tried to record the conversation. Maybe you’ll find something helpful on it.”
    Ivan held the thumb drive in his hand as he watched Sarah leave. He had never once thought that she was guilty. While he didn’t approve of his boss getting into a relationship with her, he’d had enough interactions with her to know that she wasn’t the type to commit espionage. Of course, it helped that her background check produced nothing out of the ordinary.
    Curious as to the contents, he sat down at his desk and inserted the drive. The conversation was garbled and difficult to hear. Picking up the phone, he called up to IT to have someone come down to assist with cleaning it up. As he waited, he contemplated what he might find. While he had always considered Marcus opportunistic, he never imagined that he would commit espionage. Vitaly paid him too well. 
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    It took the better part of two days, but when they finished cleaning up the audio file, there was no question as to who the leak was and that Sarah had been intentionally framed. More than once, Dmitri Nardiv expressed his displeasure at Sarah’s adamant refusal to accept his offer, which he considered quite generous. Not that she would know since she refused to hear it.
    Since Vitaly was still in New York, Ivan texted him to contact him on video chat when he had a private moment. Two hours later, Ivan’s chat notification beeped indicating that Vitaly was waiting.
    “Hey, boss,” Ivan said as Vitaly turned toward the monitor. “How goes New York?”
     “Difficult. We’ve been cleaning up the mess Sarah made and it looks like we lost both contracts. Marcus has been working to bring in another client.”
    “So, you are certain that it was Sarah, then.”
    “Of course, it was her laptop….”
    “Which she said that she had left at the office. Did you ever stop to think that maybe she was framed?”
    “Why would I? All the evidence pointed to her.”
    “But yet, you didn’t bring her up on charges. Why is that?”
    “Marcus didn’t think it was a good idea.”
    Maybe because the evidence would collapse, Ivan mumbled to himself.
    “Ivan, what is all this about?”
    “I am in receipt of an audio file that I think might be of interest to you.” As Ivan played it, he watched Vitaly’s emotions shift across his face from shock to outrage.
    “Where did you get it?”
    “Sarah dropped it off when she came in to sign her exit paperwork. She saw Marcus behaving suspiciously and followed him into a bar. She managed to record part of his conversation with Nardiv. It was garbled and it took some doing, but as you heard, we were able to clean it up.”
    Putting his head in his hands, Vitaly rubbed his cheeks. “My god, I’ve been such a fool. After everything it took to bring Sarah back, I completely fucked it up by jumping to conclusions. How will she ever forgive me?”
    “I don’t think that she will. But the bigger question is, what are you going to do about Marcus?”
    “Oh, I have an idea that will not only take care of Marcus, but possibly generate a shift in contracts from Nardiv over to me, but I’m going to need help and I don’t know whom I can trust.”
    “I’m all ears.”
    As Vitaly laid out his idea to catch