King of Code by CD Reiss

Author:CD Reiss
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Flip City Media Inc.
Published: 2017-09-18T07:00:00+00:00

“I’ll head down to the cage,” he said. “This is base64. Did you translate it?”

I hadn’t even thought to look at how it would translate. “In my head? No.” I searched for something to write on besides the wall. “I’ll do it on a piece of paper if you can’t.”

“Hang on. I’ll do it on my phone.”

I heard the sounds of the office as Deeprak walked through it. Ronald’s loud conversations about “this girl gamer on Twitch.” The hiss of the servers. The bird soundtrack in the hallway. The universal ding of the elevator.

I felt something I didn’t recognize at first because I’d never felt it before, but when the elevator doors in my office whooshed closed for Deeprak, I realized what it was: I was homesick.

Deeprak laughed and got back on the phone. “You know what it is?”

“What?”

I heard the elevator doors open.

“Our phone number.” Deeprak rattled off a string of Bengali when the ID pad asked for his name.

“She’s such a fucking card,” I mumbled as if I was annoyed, but the truth was she was being thoughtful. She knew I couldn’t get my phone. She knew I’d have to use a landline. She knew I wouldn’t have shit memorized. So she gave it to me, knowing that I’d be able to scratch out the answer but not knowing I was in too much of a hurry to do it.

“She?” He interrupted my warm feelings. His chair squeaked, and computer keys clicked against the muted stillness of the cage. “Is it Harper Watson?”

“Who? No.”

Yes, but no. He wasn’t allowed to know about her yet. I didn’t want her accused, and I didn’t want Keaton flying his ass out here to torment her or scoop her up. Nope. I wanted her to myself. She was mine. All mine.

That makes no sense.

“Jack checked on her. Did you know we interviewed her?”

“For what?”

“The cage. To replace Walter.”

My skin tingled. My breath stopped. My brain went into complete shutdown while I tried to remember every woman we’d interviewed.

I couldn’t recall a single one.

But how many had been that hot? You’d think my dick would at least have a little recollection.

“I’d remember.”

“You were looking at your phone the entire time, but sure. You might remember her score on the coding test though.”

The test was a beast, and my guys in the cage were the best. None of them had scored under ninety percent.

“What was it?”

“Perfect. But, your dick.”

Was that true? Had I forgotten a perfect score? I mean, yes, I didn’t hire women. Very few small operations did. When I was as big as Google, I’d take the risk. Until then, I couldn’t afford a lawsuit or an HR debacle. Couldn’t deal with a work slowdown when we were hosed constantly. And the guys in the cage? We didn’t have a pill to manage the awkward social reflux.

“What the hell was Keaton doing on TV?” I asked, changing the subject. A group must have gathered around Deeprak. I could hear the guys goofing off.

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