Soft Shatter (Wolven Moon Book 1) by Dany Rae Miller

Author:Dany Rae Miller
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Dany Rae Miller
Published: 2014-11-25T00:00:00+00:00

chapter twenty-three

“HEY, BABE,” GARRETT greets me at Jelly U and seats me in the back of his area. He eyes my computer bag. “I’ll get my external and your lunch. I made your usual salad. That okay?”

“Absolutely. And thank you.”

While Garrett goes behind the counter, I sit and slide my ancient laptop from the bag. I open it and am about to push the power button when Garrett stays my hand.

“Not yet.” He places my salad in front of me. “It’s got to boot with the external.”

I hold my hands up and cede control to him. He unzips a little case that holds an external hard drive and plugs the cord from it into the laptop. We chat while we wait for the malware to install itself and I eat half the salad before it finally dings.

“Okay. It’s done.” Garrett unplugs his device.

“So, how will we know if it works?”

“It’ll ping my email.”

“You’ll let me know, then?”

“I’d rather let the cops know.”

Shit. Nash will find out.

“No. Me first. Promise, Garrett?”

He frowns. “I do not want you taking any chances here, okay? This is a stalker at best and a serial killer at worst.”

“I understand that. If you find out who it is, just tell me first.”

“It depends what the data says.” He stands.

“Garrett.”

“Nope. Someone’s gotta protect your cute butt.” He winks and goes back to work.

Shit.

I stay put and chew slow, trying to get Garrett’s attention as he flits around serving the lunch crowd. At the same time, I use the old computer as I usually would. I want the person who is spying on me to believe it’s still my go-to computer. I update my calendar with a completely bogus class schedule, and totally make believe events.

“Garrett.” I call to him sweetly as he nears my table, hoping he’ll stop and chat. I need to convince him to share the malware info with me by default.

“Busy.” He whizzes by, his arms loaded with lunch plates. “You’re not going to change my mind anyway.”

Then I need to draw this person out now — right now. But how? I tap my lip with an index finger. What I want to know is whether the spy has any connection whatsoever with my sister running away. So, I have to mention her.

An idea comes to mind. I open the calendar app and on Thursday’s itinerary, enter a morning event. At nine o’clock I’ll be getting an ‘Update on Val’. And the location? Should it be at a public place? No. I wouldn’t be able to tell who the spy is in a crowd. In a light bulb moment, I enter ‘home’. I’ll draw them to my old place while I keep watch. Simple.

There. That’s vague enough. If this person is linked to Val in any way, they will most likely show up. I putz around on the prehistoric computer for a few minutes more — visiting news sites and scanning a few psychology journals on it. Finally, I pack up.

On my way out, I catch Garrett’s arm and pull him aside to beg one more time.

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