Firewall by R.M. Olson

Author:R.M. Olson [Olson, R.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

JEZ GLANCED OVER at the table, where Lev, Tae, and Ivan were huddled around Lev’s holoscreen.

“That’s not going to work,” said Lev, and there was annoyance in his voice.

“Well, maybe you can come up with something better,” Tae snapped. Ivan glanced between them, then over at her with a wry look on his face.

She grinned at him.

“You two eggheads look like you’re having fun over there.”

Tae and Lev both looked up, glaring at her.

“Jez,” said Tae, and she could hear the familiar exasperation in his tone. “If you don’t have something helpful to add—”

“Hey,” she said, grinning. “I have all sorts of helpful things to add, probably. What are you doing?”

Lev took a deep breath and pinched the bridge of his nose. “The same thing we’ve been doing for the last twenty-four damn hours, Jez,” he said through his teeth. “And we’re no closer to a solution, as far as I can see.”

She sauntered over to the table and leaned in, glancing at the holoscreen. “OK, but to be fair, I wasn’t actually paying attention to whatever you said you were going to be figuring out last night.”

There was something mildly gratifying in the way Lev sucked in his breath between his teeth.

She was standing close to him, and she suddenly realized that, but if she shifted away from him it would feel too much like admitting how shaky her muscles went when she was close to him, which, now she thought about it, she was starting to feel a little shaky right now. Which was completely stupid, honestly. So she took a deep breath instead, and turned to grin at him.

Which maybe wasn’t the best move, all things considered, because the way his eyes caught hers, and his expression went suddenly unfocused—

She turned quickly back to Tae, who was watching both of them with an expression of completely undisguised exasperation.

“We’re trying, Jez,” he said through his teeth, “to figure out how the hell we’re going to stop Grigory from taking down the entire Svodrani system government.”

“Yeah, but I though we were trying to take down the entire—”

“Jez. Can you please focus for three seconds? Yes, we want to take down the government. But replacing it with Grigory isn’t going to make things any better, and will probably make them a hell of a lot worse.”

She grinned. “OK, fair enough.” Honestly, if she would admit it, she was harassing him because it was the only way she could think of to get rid of the tight ball of worry that was sitting in the pit of her stomach.

Because she’d known people who’d worked for the mafia. She’d flown with them, when she was a kid and flying for Lena.

And she knew, maybe better than Tae did, what a system run by those damn bastards would look like.

Honestly, this whole time she’d been running with Masha, she’d been more worried about whatever the hell it was they were dealing with at the moment than Masha’s grand plan to take down the entire system government.

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