“Jordy, I’ll put you in touch with the person in charge of the corporate cybersecurity unit I mentioned. They have access to more than you should need.”
Jordy grinned like the Cheshire Cat. “There’s no such thing as too much computing power.”
“Geek,” Terry scoffed.
“I’ll make sure Roberta is expecting your call,” Yates said. “She’ll fix you up with whatever you need.”
“Roberta?” The name rolled off Jordy’s tongue with a flavor of disdain.
Duke chuckled. “You going to let a girl show you up?” Air whooshed out of the big man as Constance gave him a swift elbow to the gut. “Hey.”
Serena gave Constance a thumbs-up—girls sticking together.
I held back my laugh, careful to avoid an elbow from my own firecracker.
“So those weren’t real pictures you just showed us?” Peyton asked.
“Not recent ones,” Jordy responded. “They’re samples from the last two years I’m using to train the machine. I need a few hours to train the algorithm before it goes live.”
“How many cameras can you watch at one time with this setup?” the detective asked.
“All of them in the western section of the city.”
O’Connor couldn’t keep the disbelief off his face. “Not possible.”
“Yes, possible,” Jordy shot back. “All it takes is the right kind of genius.”
Duke laughed at his brother.
“And a complete lack of modesty,” Lucas added.
“Hey,” Jordy complained. “This is wicked-hard shit.”
“Which is why we keep you around,” Lucas agreed.
O’Connor was still shaking his head. “What I wouldn’t give for my IT department to have a capability like this.”
“Anybody who calls their specialists the IT department—” Jordy slathered the wordITwith disdain. “—doesn’t deserve a capability like Adeline.”
“You call it Adeline?” Duke scolded his brother. “You seriously need to get out of your dungeon and meet a real woman.”
“Adeline’s a work of art,” Jordy mumbled.
“So is my woman,” Duke shot back, pulling Serena close.
Serena smiled and kissed him. “You say the nicest things.”
“Back on task,” Lucas said, rescuing Jordy. “When our boy genius is ready, we’ll spread out so somebody will be in place to respond quickly and trail this guy. Since he’s already spotted Peyton, he won’t be far away. We bracket West LA and Santa Monica until we get better data.”
My girl shivered against me.
“Any questions?” Lucas asked.
People glanced around, but nobody spoke up.
Lucas pointed at the detective. “How big is that file of yours?”
“It filled up two suitcases.”
