Total pages in book: 196
Estimated words: 180438 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 902(@200wpm)___ 722(@250wpm)___ 601(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 180438 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 902(@200wpm)___ 722(@250wpm)___ 601(@300wpm)
I wasn’t lying when I said we were trying to triangulate air space, travel, and maritime law, but he didn’t have to know what exactly I was referring to. Knowing Daddy and his team, they’d be on their way back before long, and there was still a lot left to do to bring this thing to a close.
I couldn’t make any mistakes because when Daddy loses his shit, as Grandpa likes to say, I’d have the fact that we pulled it off without a hitch on my side, which should be the gateway to him letting us do more in the future.
It’s not my fault that my mind doesn’t stay still long enough for me to rest; it’s always going in a million directions at once, but Daddy refuses to listen and is always treating us like babies, so this was the only way I could prove myself to him. The uncles already see it, but Daddy’s being stubborn as usual.
The truth is, I didn’t think it would go on for this long or that we’d get so deeply involved, but the more we learned, the harder it was to just walk away and leave everything to the men. Besides, my sister’s wedding has been put off for too long, and if I help Daddy with this, then he can come back sooner, and we can get Caitie married so she would stop sulking.
*Lyon*
“Are you telling me my kid orchestrated this whole thing?” I kept my eyes closed and tapped my finger on the table in front of me as I listened through the headphones to the rest of my team doing their thing. Across the way, Mancini was busy tapping away at computer keys while staring at the screen.
“Yup. Not bad, huh!”
“Walk me through the whole thing.” I didn’t grit my teeth so hard that you’d notice, but my eye was starting to twitch, which is a good giveaway that I was about to lose my shit.
This jackass was happily tapping away at keys, unaware that I was about to throw something at his head any second because I knew that no matter what came out of his mouth, he had something to do with this shit.
“Well, it started while we were in the Midwest with Lorde and Saunders Sr. made a trip to the island. The girls overheard him talking about the Ryder situation and went digging; that’s where they ran into the trafficking situation and freaked.”
“The boys thought they passed it off to them, and that was that, but apparently, they were doing their own thing behind the scenes.”
“I know all that; I’m asking about this, where we are now.”
“Oh, well, I was getting to that. So, she had Russo and Track compete against each other to see who could hack into these people the fastest, and you know how those two are.”
“Go on!”
“You want the condensed version? Cause this would take all day.” I gave him a look which only made him grin and go back to his tapping shit.
“Fine, once they got what they needed from the hacks, she had Janie programmed in that hospital, had the SEALs drop her off in the middle of the reporters, and yada-yada-yada, you know all that.”
“You’re telling me Mengele knew how to set that whole thing up?”
“Yeah, she fed one of the reporters on the scene questions to ask, which included some kind of trigger that set the whole thing off, and that’s why Janie mentioned all that stuff. It was so they could panic and do what they did.”
“So, she knew they would panic and send the girls to this place together, which would make it easy for us to grab them all at the same time?”
“Yeah! From what I know, she used the hack to send them false information that seemed as if it was coming from one to the other. In other words, she planted the idea among them since she had control of their devices.”
“And how did she get that control? Did Track and Russo allow my ten-year-old daughter to get involved in this after I told all of you not to let those kids get close to this kind of shit?”
“They didn’t let her do shit; she played them.”
“How so?”
“While they were competing against each other to see who could hack the fastest, Nia was hacking them. They were seeing everything in real time. As soon as Russo or Track hacked into an account, she came in right behind them.”
“Are you telling me Russo nor Track knew she was in there?”
“I’m sure they did, but what were they going to do? She already had as much control as they did.”
“I don’t believe you one fuck. You’re behind this, aren’t you?”
“I’m not sure why you’re always accusing me, but lest you forget, I was in the Midwest with you when this whole thing got started, remember?”