i don't know you anymore - sombr
Age Twenty-Three
IfindReginasittingin the office; the place is small, bare, and cold.
The only items we have so far are a desk and laptop. It’s situated on the other side of town, miles away from Harrison, away from all the names we seemed to have captured a couple of weeks ago.
We haven’t started up our company just yet. I’ve been working on the research needed to build the clientele.
Regina’s been working on software to get into the police records. She has a few projects under her belt, mostly as part of a showcase for her skills.
This one is something she started in university—not for this specific purpose, but one she wanted to try during her darker web searches.
Even though she had a prospering career ahead of her, she’s always been intrigued in how hackers do what they do.
I used to say she watched too many damn cyber thrillers.
But now…I’m kind of grateful for it.
Her green eyes glance up at me, her brows set in a deep frown.
“What’s wrong?” I ask, walking over to sit on top of the box next to her seat.
She turns in the chair to face me. “Well…the program worked.”
My eyes widen. “That’s good, right?”
She’s been building this for years; it was more a hobby to see if she could do it, no real intentions to deploy it, I think.
She’s spent so much time working on a VPN to hide her tracks, and I’ve never really asked who would end up as the fall guy if it was ever traced.
She nods, gaze travelling back to the screen.
“That’s deplorable,” she retorts, her hand moving to the mouse to click various web tabs, and a list tumbles down the screen.
She leans back, giving me room to move forward and read down the information she’s showing me. My breathing hitches.
“Are those—”
“Police reports for all the names we took of Sumus.”
My blood runs cold.
Each of the twenty names we gathered of the Sumus members are highlighted in each file.
Regina must have pulled the vital information in them, along with the status.
Bile rises in my throat, my eyes narrowing as I begin to see a pattern.
Powerful families.
Sumus member.
Sexual assault charge.
Insufficient evidence.
Not taken forward.
