Shadow Underground by Candice Bundy

Author:Candice Bundy [Bundy, Candice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780985418571
Publisher: Lusios Publishing

CHAPTER 16

Gingerly sipping her coffee, Becka looked around the conference table. She felt barely awake despite having had a long shower. Saige had insisted on coming in with them, mostly because she didn’t want to miss out on any reveals Gullet might drop. Lydia had barely roused as they’d headed out the door, which wasn’t surprising considering the empty bottle of wine on her nightstand.

Now Saige sat next to her, a perpetual, exhausted frown embedded in her features. She needed a month of sleep straight to recover from her losses and stress. Hamish, Quinn, and Nikkita stood at the screen going over Gullet’s movements for the past few weeks, but Becka wasn’t paying much attention to them.

When a peppy Caeda zipped into the room with a box full of bagels, Becka shifted the conversation. “Can I get you one?” she asked Saige.

Saige nodded. “The everything is my first choice, otherwise plain. And cream cheese.”

Becka sidled up next to Caeda, reaching around her for napkins and the cream cheese container.

“How’s the mood today?” Caeda asked.

“Tense and cranky?” Becka replied. “Not sure how the questioning went overnight yet.”

Caeda frowned. “Word on the street? Gullet does a good impression of a gargoyle.”

“Is he still here?”

“Oh yeah. We’ve got another half day before we have to let him go.”

“We just need to catch a break,” Becka muttered. She grabbed a chocolate chip and an everything bagel and headed back to the table. “Here you go,” she said to Saige, placing the everything bagel in front of her before slathering cream cheese on her own.

“That’s a desecration to the chocolate gods,” Saige said.

“Yet I’ve seen you eat chocolate cheesecake.” Becka took a bite of her bagel, and suddenly the day looked brighter.

“Do you understand desserts are not included in every meal of the day?”

Becka shook her head. “You’re definitely doing it wrong.”

Saige laugh-snorted. Becka did a fist pump, drawing out the first smile on Saige’s face in weeks. It wasn’t a big win, but she’d take what she could get.

Caeda sat down across from them, her plain bagel covered with more peanut butter than there was bagel. “Hey team, why don’t you share your analysis with the table?”

Quinn and Nikkita took seats at the table while Hamish remained standing.

“Our analysis…” Quinn began, leaning forward with his elbows on the table. He looked remarkably good for having skipped a night’s sleep, but that didn’t surprise her considering his House Oak constitution. “Is that Gullet never goes to the club with any piece of identifiable hardware on him. There are weeks where he’s got all of this typical gear on him. A phone. A fitness tracker. Sometimes a tablet. Then he’ll leave it all at his apartment and effectively disappear off GPS for a couple of days at a stretch.”

“We assume they warned him about these devices,” Nikkita said. “I’ve been trying to match burner phone patterns to his last known locations and times he left his gear at home, but so far nothing. I’ve also done

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