Lie With Me (Stonewall Investigations Miami Book 2) by Walker Max

Author:Walker, Max [Walker, Max]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2019-08-25T16:00:00+00:00

20 Oliver Brightly

Part of me couldn’t believe I was inside a penthouse belonging to the coolest freakin’ hacker I’ve ever laid my eyes on.

Not that I’d laid my eyes on many hackers in the first place, but still, Anya was definitely the coolest, I could tell from the jump.

She had a laid-back energy to her and instantly welcomed us into her home, but underneath that calm was an intelligence and sharpness that buzzed like electricity. I was simultaneously relaxed and on edge, even though she was doing everything to make us comfortable. I had accepted the beer and was drinking it as she led us to her hub, a wall of computers that glowed with different images on every screen. Behind the fortress of silicone were floor-to-ceiling windows that looked out onto the beach, which was currently twinkling up at us with all kinds of colored lights.

“Make yourselves at home,” Anya said, motioning to a comfortable-looking light blue couch just to the side of her computers. As she got set up and was pulling up whatever nuggets of information she had found, she was talking to us about the concert we were headed to, and how she used to love listening to J.Lo as a kid. The conversation, as it often does when I’m around, turned to favorite pop divas, and the mood relaxed. I almost forgot the reason for us being here in the first place.

“And Pink,” Beckham offered. “I loved Pink. I remember buying her first record. Bought every one since.”

“Oh, I knew that about you,” Anya said. “You have that confident ‘fuck you I listen to Pink and can potentially do aerial tricks’ aura about you.”

I laughed. “Thought you were going to say you looked through his search history.”

“That too, but, well—” She put a hand out like Vanna White, framing her computers. “—that’s a given.”

I paused for a second before both Anya and Beckham started to laugh. I joined in, a little relieved she was joking. Not that I had anything to hide, even if she wasn’t joking.

Well, there was that one time I googled… nah, forget it. That was on my browser’s privacy mode. No way could she have found that.

Right?… Right?

“All right, let’s dig into this,” Anya said, cracking her knuckles. She drank from her Adventure Time mug, foam from the beer sticking to her upper lip before she wiped it off.

The weight of the moment was settling back onto my chest, reminding me of the exact reason why we were here.

This could be it. Anya may have found something that pointed to the two thugs involved in this. We may have the answer to who those two monsters were. The ones who’d stolen a light from this world, one that so badly needed any light it could get. Derrick was a spotlight, his soul as bright as the sun. And he was taken in the blink of an eye. In the explosion of a star.

I began feeling excited about the prospects of putting this all behind me.

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