The Cyber Twins novel · Chapter 5 of 24

Chapter 5: Crowe's Offer

Every head in the dock office turned toward Jillian.

"I talk about Wynnie to everyone," Jillian said, and laughed. "She's my best friend, Desmond. Everybody knows that."

"Of course," Crowe said pleasantly.

Ottavio hadn't taken his eyes off him.

"State your price, Desmond. Then get out of my terminal."

"Two hundred thousand, for finding your property."

"My son found your lot an hour ago."

Nico looked up from his laptop, and I watched him decide not to say that he hadn't.

"We have the containers on screen," Nico said. "You'll have a lawyer's letter by noon."

"Then I'll have a long, cold morning." Crowe turned his gloves over in one hand. "Before I go, Ottavio, may I borrow Miss Vandemark for five minutes? She hasn't said a word in this room, and I'd like to know what she's thinking."

"No," Nico said.

"Yes," I said.

He looked at me.

"Five minutes, in the glass office," I said. "Your guards can stand at the door and watch me the entire time."

Ottavio studied me for a long moment.

"Five minutes," he said. "Door open."

The glass office was a box at the end of the room with a metal desk and a dead plant.

Crowe sat on one side of the desk and I sat on the other.

Two of Ottavio's guards stood outside the open door with their arms folded.

My phone was in my coat pocket.

I put my hand in my pocket and pressed record, and I kept my hand there.

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