And Then I Found Out the Truth by Jennifer Sturman

Author:Jennifer Sturman [Sturman, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-545-32227-0
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2010-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

Eighteen

I was worried Natalie would be so busy either moping over Edward or figuring out how to try him before a jury of his peers that she wouldn’t be interested in some friendly hacking. But she responded to my text right when school ended, like she was eager for the distraction. She was doing a research internship at Columbia and had to go there for a couple of hours first, but she promised she’d head for the loft as soon as she was done.

True to her word, she arrived at Laight Street a little after six. And in typical Natalie fashion, she’d stopped home to pick up some computer equipment she knew I’d never have, but she hadn’t bothered to change out of her Prescott uniform. I could tell Charley was already planning where we’d take her shopping to thank her for what she was about to do, though Charley had no idea what she’d be up against — Natalie would probably wear Garanimals if they came in her size, so she wouldn’t have to waste valuable time trying to match outfits herself.

“It was the weirdest thing,” said Natalie as she walked in. “I took a taxi here, and the inside was covered in stickers with pictures of the two of you. There were seventeen on the partition between the driver and the backseat, three on one door, four on the other door, and seven on the rear window. Why would somebody paste thirty-one stickers with your pictures on them in the back of a taxi?”

“Stickers,” said Charley, resigned. “I should have seen that coming.”

“What should you have seen coming?” asked Rafe from the kitchen. He was booked on an overnight flight back to Buenos Aires, but he was hanging out with us until it was time to leave for the airport. He said it was to help Natalie, but since Natalie was an accomplished hacker and Rafe still hadn’t mastered the lock on his briefcase, it was pretty obvious he was just trying to squeeze in every possible moment he could with Charley. He’d even offered to cook dinner. Now he was rummaging through the refrigerator for ingredients, though we’d warned him all he’d find was leftover takeout.

Anyhow, Charley began telling Rafe about Dieter harnessing the power of visual media, and Natalie and I got to work. Which really meant that I brought out my laptop so Natalie could work on both of our computers at once while I tried not to get in her way.

It didn’t take long for me to explain to Natalie what we were trying to accomplish and why. “What’s the address of the office building?” she asked, her fingers poised over one of the keyboards. “First we need to determine who handles security for the property.”

I gave her the building’s address on West 40th Street, across from Bryant Park and the main branch of the New York Public Library, and from there it only took her a couple of Web searches to identify the firm that managed the property and then the vendor the firm used for security.

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