No Test for the Wicked: A Lexi Carmichael Mystery, Book Five by Julie Moffett

Author:Julie Moffett [Moffett, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2014-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

We were trapped in a high school with terrorists who had enough explosives to blow us to kingdom come and back, but relying on math to save our lives was still pretty fun. Elvis must have been thinking the same thing because he gave me a smile as he glanced up from the laptop.

“Do you think we should recalculate with a higher percentage of uncertainty in terms of the roving patrols?”

I shook my head. “No. We’re good. I’m comfortable where we stand. It’s as solid as we’re going to get based on the high number of incalculable uncertainties. A twenty percentage success rate is the best we’re going to get even if we assess it a hundred more times.”

He sighed and closed the laptop. “You’re right.” He glanced at his watch. “Four minutes then. Are you ready?”

“As ready as I will ever be.”

“You’ve got this, Lexi. No, we’ve got this. I’ll be watching for the signal once you’re in. I know you’re going to make it.”

“I will. You’re sure you’ll find me via the back door?”

“Of the entire plan, that’s the part I’m the surest on.”

“Good.” I took a deep breath. “Okay. Goodbye, Elvis. It’s time.”

His grin faded. “Right. Look, before you go, I want you to know that I...I...”

“You what?”

“I...I’m behind you a hundred percent.”

“Good to know.” I started to crawl out of the cabinet and then stopped. There was something I wanted to ask him, and this might be my last chance. “Hey, Elvis, did you really think about having sex with me?”

“What?”

“Well, back in the computer room, before I made you strip, you said you’d thought a lot about ‘it’, which I presumed meant having sex...with me.”

“Um, are you sure this is a good time to talk about it?”

It definitely wasn’t. Even I knew that. “I just wondered.”

“Well, I...” He looked down. “I can’t do this right now.”

“Okay. No worries. I know that ninety-six point eight percent of men think about whether they’d like to have sex with a woman within the first eleven seconds of meeting her. That’s a biological fact, so I didn’t take it personally one way or the other. I guess it doesn’t matter anyway. It just surprised me. Forget I asked.”

“Lexi—”

“Never mind. It was a dumb question. I hope I didn’t embarrass you. I’ve got to go. Wish me luck one more time, Elvis.”

He blew out a breath. “Good luck, Lexi. Be in that twenty percent success rate, okay?”

“Okay.”

I crept out of the cabinet, took one last look at Elvis and closed the cabinet door. I crept toward the door. It was four fifty-six. We’d been under siege for more than three hours. I wondered if my parents and brothers knew I was here. I presumed Finn would have contacted them by now. I imagined that he, my parents and brothers were glued to the television along with most of America. They were all probably worried sick about me. Again.

But Slash...no, Slash wouldn’t be in front of the television. He was

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