Deep Shadows by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nightlight Press
Published: 2018-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

20

We stared at the wall and each other, waiting in the silence that followed. It was every bit as horrible as it sounded, the seconds creaking by agonizingly.

“Do you think it’ll work?” Jackie muttered. “Do you think she’ll actually get in?”

“She has to,” I replied. “The Ministry has our friends, and we have no way of getting them. They might have our addresses, too, and we have no way of knowing unless Gabby gets in. We need her to get in there and tell us what’s going on.”

“I hate to be the bearer of bad news here, but needing her to get in there and her getting in there successfully are two different things, Robin,” Ant whispered.

“Why exactly are we all whispering?” Jace asked suddenly, and I turned to stare at him.

“I hadn’t even realized we were,” I replied, but it made sense when I thought about it. There was the distinct feeling that we were all being watched, being heard. The Ministry had managed to track us down during our raid and had quickly shown us how outclassed we were. They’d beaten Nelson. They might have been in the very website that we’d used to plan a rebellion.

Yes, it definitely felt as if they might be listening to us right now—which was why I continued whispering.

“What if they’re watching us right now?” I asked. “What if they’ve seen everything we’ve been doing? What if they know everything we’ve said?”

Jace shook his head.

“Very unlikely. They probably didn’t even know OH+ existed until the night of the raid. Nathan thinks they reverse-hacked Nelson’s computer through the snare protocol and got in that way. She must have had the OH+ server open at the time. Once they had the address, it was probably short work for them to hack in.”

“Seems like it would have been pretty stupid of her to have the portal open at a time like that,” Jackie said, eyes narrowed. “That wouldn’t have been like her.”

“Well, she wasn’t expecting to run into any sneaky Ministry spiders, was she?” Ant answered.

“Even if they didn’t get the information that way, they might have actually taken her computers when they invaded her offices,” I added.

“Why wouldn’t she have hidden any access to the portal?” Jackie asked.

“Again, I doubt she was expecting the Ministry to show up at her door,” Ant said. “She didn’t have a reason to hide it when it was just sitting around her office, did she?”

We stared at him, all of us quiet. True, there had always been the idea that we’d be discovered and arrested, but I didn’t think any of us had ever actually thought it would happen. It had been one of those theoretical possibilities, like the idea of a meteor striking and taking out the earth one day. Sure, we all knew it could happen, but we didn’t plan it into our everyday lives. We thought we were being so careful, but we’d never taken it seriously enough.

“Oh my God, I’m in,” Gabby suddenly breathed, breaking in on our useless musings.

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