Tanner by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773360935
Publisher: Valley Publishing
Published: 2018-09-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Four days later Todd said, “Have you still not heard from Tanner?”

“Just the once,” she said. “I’m hardly a priority for him right now when he’s on an overseas mission. And we still don’t have a bodyguard replacement after the last SEAL got called to duty last night. Just so you know.” But Todd didn’t pay much attention to things when he was working.

Thankfully Todd left her alone after that. It was Friday, nine days after her accident. She walked into the office, unlocked the door, turned on the lights and headed to her computer to boot it up. As she sat down, her phone buzzed. She lifted it to see a message from Tanner.

Surprised, she stared at it, but inside her heart warmed. He’d been here it seemed like constantly for the majority of the forty-eight hours after her accident. Just about to respond to his text, her phone rang. And it was also Tanner. She picked up the phone and answered. “Hello?”

“Are you angry at me?”

“Of course not.” But of course she was. A little. She sighed. “At least not very much. Besides, you were working. It is what it is.”

He laughed. “I didn’t get a chance to contact you again. I got in late last night.”

She smiled. “So are you off today?”

“I am. I was going to swing by and see if you wanted to go out for lunch.”

“Absolutely I do,” she said. “What time?”

“How about noon?”

“See you then.” Smiling, she ended the call, glad to have Tanner as her assigned bodyguard now. She felt bad that those other guys had given up their free time to be here. And wouldn’t you know it? There had been a break-in when one guy had to leave with no backup guard for them. Made her wonder if her house wasn’t being watched. But she really didn’t want to consider that.

She put down the phone and tried to log in. But she couldn’t. She tried again and again. She got up and walked out to the shop, but Todd was in his office, along the same side of the building as her office, yet on the opposite end of the workshop. She walked in and said, “Have you been able to log into the system this morning?”

He was working on his big tablet, making design changes. He shook his head. “No. I was going to ask you when you arrived.”

She groaned. “So is this the usual bullshit with computers, or have we been hacked?”

Slowly he lifted his gaze, and a look of horror crossed his face. “We better not have been hacked.”

She returned to her office, picked up the phone and called the IT security company. “I can’t log in. Can you see what’s going on, please?” While she was on the phone, the IT techs went through her system.

“Yes, there was an attack. Somebody trying to get in, too many log-ins within a short time. We locked down all the accounts.”

“How many attempts?”

“Seven.”

Dazed, she raised her gaze to Todd, now standing with his crutches in her doorway.

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