Spaceside by Michael Mammay

Author:Michael Mammay
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-08-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

I went to work early the next day. Sasha had told me that the people who shot me worked for Omicron. It stuck with me, and my gut said that Omicron had something to do with the Cappans wanting to meet with me. There were too many coincidences for them not to be linked, especially given what Ganos had found out about the Phoenix Project. I’d lain awake most of the night, thinking about what Sasha and Riku told me. Damn if I didn’t believe them. Damn if I didn’t think the Cappans were the good guys. Maybe I’d spent enough time around corporations like Omicron to know their ills. Maybe I figured that after killing so many Cappans I owed them. Either way, I had a meeting with the Cappans in two days, and I wanted to go into it knowing as much as possible.

Walking into Omicron’s lobby and demanding answers wouldn’t work. I could have gone back at them through their computer network, but I didn’t want to further involve Ganos—I still held out hope that she’d take my advice and leave the city for a bit. And Javier had removed any official backing I had to go at them as a VPC employee. With my options limited, I felt like I had only one other avenue.

Make things very unofficial.

It was time to put some pressure on Javier about his contact. He knew things he hadn’t shared, and I wanted to know them. All that stood in my way was the small fact that he’d had a very expensive attorney tell me to drop my investigation. But with only two days, I had to take risks. If it meant potential termination of my job, so be it. I was tired of VPC anyway. I grabbed some coffee and headed up to his office to see if I could get on his schedule.

Turned out I didn’t need an appointment; Javier greeted me the moment I walked into his outer office. “Carl! Just the man I wanted to talk to. You saved me from having someone call you up.”

I tried to hide my surprise. I’d rehearsed several possible approaches in my head, but none of them involved Javier issuing me an invitation. “Sure thing, boss,” I said, after what I hoped wasn’t too awkward of a pause. I followed him into his inner office.

“I want to talk to you about Omicron.” Javier spoke before he got the door closed. I was glad he hadn’t been looking at my face when he said it, because he caught me by surprise again.

I pretended to look out his giant windows where red early-morning sunlight played across the city, throwing long shadows. I used the time to gather myself. “I got the message from the attorney to stand down,” I said, turning back to look at him.

He was shaking his head. “I’m disappointed, Carl.”

My mind raced. What did he know? He couldn’t know about the hack we’d done on their network. No way. “I’m a bit lost.

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