What was going on?
Again I started to question what I was doing aligning myself with someone I didn’t know, wasn’t sure I could trust.
I was putting everything in jeopardy.
But then…
10:06 You’re right. Too soon. V’s been on the radar for a while. Check them out.
The tension that had been coiled in my belly released and let go.
10:06 Okay. Will let you know.
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I quickly shut down the client and scrubbed my cache.
The thrill spiked, throbbing mercilessly.
A new target.
My earlier hesitation was still there, tickling the back of my mind. I needed to do recon. Which meant a lot of nights spent digging through Virtuant’s dirt.
I thought of Mason.
Agent Kohler.
It was all so perfect.
He had no idea how much.
Chapter 7
Mason
“Which one, Tig? Blue or green?”
I held up each shirt and turned to the perpetually pissed-off cat in the corner of the room.
He lifted his hind leg and started licking his ass.
Fucker.
“Yeah, the blue one. It’ll hide the pit sweat better anyway,” I muttered to myself.
I was running late. Per usual.
I was supposed to pick up Hannah in twenty minutes and I had only just gotten out of the shower.
With my job it was no wonder a social life had never been in the cards. Particularly when I was knee deep in a new assignment. One that I hadn’t wanted in the first place.
The rest of the day had passed like the morning. Full of dead ends and constant frustration.
Perry was by far the worst partner I had ever had. He was a nice enough guy, but that didn’t mean I wanted to be shackled to him.
There were rumblings that his career was built on nepotism. I couldn’t deny that had to be the case. I couldn’t imagine him making it through the academy a week, let alone graduating.
He knew next to nothing about reverse searching IP addresses, DDoS attacks, or megabreaches. If you asked him what a packet monkey was, he’d think it was some rare breed of chimp that lived in Africa. As long as Perry was my partner, I’d be carrying around dead weight. And Derek knew this, which I suspected was why we were working together.
