Hidden Hero: His Time to Shine novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: The Missing Copy
Ellen let us in through the loading dock at six.
My badge was a pile of plastic in a gutter, so she walked me through the steel door herself.
The real room was lit at dawn.
Three desks were staffed.
Morris's chair had been pushed against the wall with his cardigan folded over the back.
Nobody had sat in it since.
Jo stopped at the doorway and then came in anyway, her chin up.
Brant came last.
He wore a gray hoodie and sunglasses, and an agent had to scan his face twice.
"I'm not here as a celebrity," he said.
"You're not here as anything," said Ellen. "Sit."
He sat on a folding chair at the end of the room, as far from the monitors as the room allowed.
A map filled the biggest wall screen.
A single red dot pulsed on a block in Georgetown.
"Four seconds," Ellen said. "At 2:51 this morning, the spare token woke and tried to find a network."
"Morris built that in," I said. "A cold start pings home."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Hidden Hero: His Time to Shine are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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