Stolen by Allison Brennan

Author:Allison Brennan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Thrillers, General, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯), Fiction
ISBN: 9781250005977
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 2013-06-03T14:00:00+00:00

It was after dawn, much later than Sean had planned to leave, when he finally cracked Hunter’s system. He smiled, though his success was bittersweet.

“I’m going to miss you, pal,” he said to himself. He wished he hadn’t cut ties with Hunter or Colton. Now there was no going back. Colton wouldn’t forgive this betrayal when he found out Sean was working for the feds.

Sean reviewed the logs and saw that after he’d told Colton that Deanna Brighton had been following him, Hunter had changed the security system so that anyone who walked past Colton’s house was photographed and the file sent immediately to Hunter’s iCloud server. When Sean cracked the phone code, he had access to the iCloud and pulled down the images to his desktop.

He disregarded people on the sidewalk unless they stopped. He was particularly interested in anyone who watched or approached the house.

Only one person showed up who Sean didn’t know. Tuesday, late morning, only a few hours after Sean and Hunter met in Bryant Park.

Sean didn’t recognize the well-dressed, trim, blond stranger. From where his head matched up to the doorframe, Sean guessed he was about six feet tall. He looked like an accountant or businessman in his mid-to-late thirties.

Sean couldn’t see who opened the door, but the stranger entered. He left fifty minutes later.

Sean had to take a risk. He called Colton.

Colton answered the phone, groggy. “What?”

“Are you alone?”

“Carol’s sleeping.”

“I sent you a picture. Look at it.”

“Just a sec.”

Sean heard a door close, a computer being booted up. A moment later, Colton said, “Who’s this?”

“I don’t know. I cracked Hunter’s security. When he changed the security after Deanna Brighton followed you from the carriage house—”

“After you think she followed me—”

“He had pictures of anyone near the house sent to his external server. It’s a fail-safe, in case your system was tampered with.”

“No one touched my system.”

Sean wasn’t going to argue with him. “This is the only person who went inside. He was there from eleven thirty yesterday morning until nearly twelve thirty. You don’t know who he is?”

Colton said, “Hunter was spying on me?”

Sean squeezed his temples, his headache going from throbbing to pounding. “No,” he told Colton. “After Hunter beefed up your security, I talked to him. Someone tipped Brighton off about you and I working together again. No one knew I was in New York except for you and the group. I didn’t say anything to Hunter that I didn’t already tell you. What do we really know about Evan and Carol?”

“Carol is not a spy!”

“Hunter said the same thing. He said he’d check old surveillance feeds and see if anyone on the team had met with Deanna or if he could spot her staking out the carriage house. Phone records, GPS tracking, anything he could get. Hunter accessed this photo thirty minutes before he left me a panicked message. I think he knew who this guy is.”

“I wasn’t here yesterday.”

“Who was?”

“I—I don’t know. I didn’t think anyone.”

“Can you check the logs?”

Colton typed.

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