The Hacker Heiress Strikes Back novel · Chapter 29 of 32
Chapter 29: The Last Move
"Don't answer it," Raylan said. "Let the lawyers answer it."
"No," I said. "I'm the one who wrote the code, so I'll be the one who's in the room."
By eleven o'clock I sat on a gray sofa under studio lights.
A producer clipped a microphone to my hoodie while a makeup artist begged to touch my nose.
"No powder," I said. "I want them to see me sweat."
Across from me sat the anchor of the city's biggest morning show, a calm woman in a red jacket.
She had the tabloid headline on a tablet in her lap.
A red light blinked on the camera.
"We're joined now by Waverly Calhoun," she said.
"Eleven days ago you took over the ballroom screen at the Merriman Foundation Gala."
"Lucinda Merriman's attorneys call it a federal crime."
"It was a demonstration," I said. "Mrs. Merriman asked me to give one."
I took a cream-colored card out of my jacket.
It was the program from the envelope under Raylan's door, with Lucinda's gold lettering and the single line marked in pen.
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