He looked from me to Wes and smiled.
I put out my hand to shake his.
“Yes. I’m Xander and this is my friend Wes. Great to meet you.”
“Same here.”
Wes shook his hand too.
We walked inside the house and it was clear that the classic homely look stopped at the door.
The house reminded me of being in The Pentagon but with a mixture of what Tony Stark’s place would look like, very, very high tech.
That was just the sitting room.
He led us to his office and it looked like it had been pulled from a scene in Iron Man. He even had robots.
“Jesus, what a place you have here,” I stated.
“It’s totally my kind of place,” Wes agreed with keen appreciation.
Dorian smiled. “Glad you like it guys. This is what you call years of design.”
I smiled at that. I could just imagine the years he must have put in.
Dorian took us over to a seated area. The computer was holographic and moved on a glass screen at the touch of his fingers.
“So, what can I do for you? Who are we spying on?” he asked.
I glanced at Wes then looked back to him.
“I’m not sure.”
“This isn’t gonna be one of those things where you can’t tell me what I’m looking for because of some breach of protocol or shite like that, are ya?”
“No.”
“Good, because I exist now outside of the system. I get the juice on things if the price is right. But some things I do for free. Like for friends like Jack. So this is a freebie.”
“Thank you. We’re looking for intel on the Ra. I think I want to see if we can find anything from somewhere, or someone in the CIA office or SMF that looks off. Maybe an email.”
He inclined his head to the side. “I get it. That’s deep shit though. You think there’s a double agent amongst them?”
“Possibly. The correspondence would have gone out around seven or eight weeks ago. The name that should pop up is Giovanni Marchesi. And blue prints. Some blueprints containing nuke designs were stolen from an envoy in transit to Arizona.”
“Okay. Let me see what I can find.”
He tapped a few keys, his hands moving so fast I couldn’t tell what he was writing out.
He tapped away and the screen populated with a lot of code. It was just programs he was hacking. Then I realized he was looking through a trail in the liquid file links.
It was a good thing Wes and I understood what he was doing because he wasn’t one to explain as he went along.
“I’m not seeing anything that stands out on email. I’m gonna search on the phones linked to people in charge. Maybe I can pick up a text or something.”
I raised my brows. “You can do that?” I hadn’t done that before. Didn’t have to. I’d mostly hacked government systems for information they were hiding.
“Oh yes. I can totally do that. I have this set up wired to give me all the juice. There is no tea spilling anywhere that I can’t find. The hard part is the search. If we had a name it would help.” He inclined his head to the side.
