Her Spy to Hold (Spy Games Book 2) by Paula Altenburg

Author:Paula Altenburg [Altenburg, Paula]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paula Altenburg
Published: 2016-05-22T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

She’d had a good time. Much better than she’d hoped for. Irina wasn’t sure, however, that Kale had learned anything useful.

She set up her laptop on the kitchen table so she could respond to a few time-sensitive, industry-related emails she hadn’t been able to address earlier at the bowling alley because she didn’t have access from her phone to the necessary data. She never stored important information in any cloud.

Her laptop was taking too long to load. She stared at it, a sinking sensation that was becoming all-too familiar twisting her stomach.

“I’ve got a problem,” she said.

“What is it?”

Kale had been on the other side of the kitchen, staring into the shadowy backyard through the patio doors. He came to where she was sitting and placed a hand on her shoulder, bringing his cheek close to hers as he bent forward so he, too, could look at the screen.

He couldn’t seem to help himself. The man was a toucher.

She forgot everything else. All evening he’d been friendly and charming, the perfect Norse god to take on a date. The women they’d bowled with had been completely bowled over by him, and why wouldn’t they be?

She wasn’t immune to him either. Not by a long shot. But she couldn’t for the life of her figure out the signals he sent.

She tried to focus on the screen and not the incredible sensation of his thumb absently massaging her tense rhomboid muscle. Oddly enough, his touch settled her stomach and nerves. “The botnet is back, which likely means at least one of my contacts was already infected before I could shut it down and it’s spreading through all our personal networks.”

“Great. Now we’re getting somewhere.” She could practically hear him rubbing his hands in his head. The pressure on her rhomboid increased in direct proportion to his enthusiasm.

“In what way?” For her, this wasn’t a reason to celebrate.

He kept his eyes on the screen and his hand on her shoulder. “If whoever’s behind the botnet is the same person—or people—responsible for your pop-ups at work, then they’re looking for specific information. If the botnet is spreading through your contacts it’s because you have something in common with at least one of them. I wonder if anyone on your contacts list is having the same pop-up problems you are?”

Her chest muscles tightened. He was shifting the focus of his investigation from her current workplace to her external contacts and that wasn’t good. “You don’t think the weapons systems design project I’m working on is the real target, do you.”

“I’m not dismissing the possibility of it just yet, but I do think you know enough geeky science people around the world that I should have been looking at your broader connections long before now.” He tapped a link on the screen. One of the emails popped open. He breathed in and out a few times. His tone conveyed awe. “You know this guy?”

“We shared the same advisor in grad school.” He was a nuclear

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