Recovery Man by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Author:Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Rusch, Kristine Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Scifi, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Not Read
ISBN: 9780451461674
Publisher: ROC
Published: 2007-09-04T04:00:00+00:00

Thirty

Detective Zagrando had moved Talia to a new apartment two floors up. It had a better view, but she cared less about that than she had earlier. She was more worried about finding a lawyer.

She had no idea how to do it. And Zagrando wanted her to. He told her she had to—to stall if nothing else.

She wasn’t sure exactly what had happened between him and that Aptheker woman, but it had scared him worse than it had scared her. And Talia didn’t think cops got scared—except maybe when their own lives were at stake or something. She didn’t think that Aptheker woman had threatened him.

Talia had been pressed as close to the door as she could get. She heard most of what they said but not all of it. She’d told Zagrando when he’d come into the apartment that she’d heard all of it, though, so he wouldn’t lie to her or try to protect her.

Besides, he was smart enough to figure out that she would try to jury-rig the apartment’s computer system so that she could replay the hallway conversation if he didn’t tell her.

She’d liked the way he threw that woman out, but she didn’t like the way he believed that woman. Talia’s mother would never, ever, sell Talia to the company. Not even in the contract her mother had signed before Talia was born.

That Aptheker woman had to be lying.

Talia had told Zagrando that, but he didn’t believe her. His eyes didn’t quite meet hers, his expression got a little guarded. He thought she didn’t know. He thought her mother had lied to her about that, too.

Talia put a hand on the window. It was cooler than the ones two floors below. She wasn’t sure if that was because it had been made of different materials or if there was some kind of temperature change this high up.

Although if there was, the window should be warmer, right?

She frowned and turned away from the window. The view didn’t show her anything except Valhalla Basin disappearing into the distance. All those happy corporate employees going about their lives, not realizing how bad things could really get.

If she’d known, she wouldn’t have skipped school so much. She’d’ve considered herself a lot luckier than she had. Because she didn’t know how good she had it.

A small alarm beeped. Zagrando had monkeyed with the control panel before he left. Now his image appeared next to it.

“Talia, you should have looked up at least six lawyers by now. Follow the instructions I gave you. Make sure you know what their specialties are before you contact any of them, and make sure you’re on a secure link.”

It was a recording. He’d somehow done that before he left, or he loaded it onto the system from a different part of the building.

She thought about making a rude gesture, then reconsidered. Maybe everything she did in here was monitored.

She shivered.

Six lawyers by now. She wondered if that was an arbitrary number or if he thought she would take only a specific amount of time with each information file.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.