u like to know? Suddenly he really did. He was actually enjoying himself. Why are you hac

are you here? There was a long pause, and for a second he thought she'd left. I don't want to be, trust me. He frowned. Well, I gotta go. No. Shit, was he crazy? He didn't need her in his fucking system. She was only a few layers up, but he could already tell

own. We'll see. The chat window closed. She was gone. Mav sank back into his chair. She'd be back. He knew that. What the hell did she want? His gut tightened. She was definitely a thief, and after something. His cell

nhattan. My brown coveralls were loose-fitting, with a tool belt slung around my waist and a brown cap perched on my head. Atlas Electric was embroidered on top. I walked over to the security desk, pasting on a smile. I'm just an electrician, nobody going to work. Nothing to see here. "Hi," I

ic ID. I'd burned my finger on the laminator. Man, Maverick Rivera was paranoid. Maverick Rivera. I smiled as the guard searched my toolbox. I had my tablet in there, but a quick glance showed it was nothing an electrician shouldn

stem. I hated the terms trojan, virus, or malware. My sweet little angel was pure beauty. I'd hacked into Atlas Electric-it was ridiculously easy-and saw that they were sending someone tomorrow to fix an electrical problem at Rivera Tech. That

t get a good look at me. Rivera only had one small office in the city. He had a large complex of labs and manufacturing warehouses called Rivera Tech Pa

ping their fingers against data and code. I itched to look at them, but I forced myself to walk to the front desk. A young man and a woman sat behind the high, polished desk. The woman looked at me-she had funky blue hair. "Ah, the electrician with the lights that don't work," the woman said. "Let me show you." The woman led me back to the back of the offic

ling and plug it in. Humming, I climbed the ladder and pushed the ceiling panel up. I poked my head inside. Bingo. I spotted a large bundle of cables in all different colors and smiled. Standing on the top step, I fished around. I needed the network cable, and I didn'

like this. Well, a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. I couldn't afford to stay too long, but I didn't have to. Tapping on my screen, I quickly copied my little angel into the system. "Go, little girl." That