The Inside Job by Jackson Pearce

Author:Jackson Pearce
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-08-23T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

On the flight home, we were upgraded to first class because the lady at the gate desk thought my still slightly blue face was a symptom of some serious medical condition and felt sorry for me. I wasn’t about to argue, since first class meant better snacks and less arm-to-arm contact with Otter. He sat down and immediately ordered two glasses of wine that smelled like cheap pink candy. I got a Coke and ate some cookies, watching England vanish into the English Channel.

“Your English accent needs work,” Otter said. I rolled my eyes and didn’t say anything, because frankly, my English accent was better than his. He was just good at making his sound more London than I was. Otter went on, “We should hit up Twinkles’s house tomorrow. Then we’re ready for the bank.” One day was a quick turnaround, but seeing how quickly the trip to Wookey Hole came together, a simple break-in couldn’t be out of our reach.

As we crossed over into France, Otter removed a yellow legal pad from his bag and began to write up a mission report on Wookey Hole. No one would be reading it other than him, of course, but he still did them for every mission, even the practice ones we did back at League headquarters. I wasn’t sure if he ever went over them, or if he just did it because it was what he would’ve done at SRS. I sort of understood, to be honest. Writing up a mission report was like putting the period on the end of the sentence. Get all the details down and boom, you’re done—you can forget about it and focus on finding some dinner. I hadn’t done it since starting at The League, but I sort of wanted to. I always stopped myself, though—in part because Otter would want to collect and read them, just like any agency director would, and in part because it felt too much like SRS creeping back into my life, dictating my likes and dislikes and habits and schedule.

“Don’t you worry about doing that?” I asked.

Otter looked up at me and then frowned. “Huh?”

I did my best to keep my face even, to hide any trace of emotion—like I was just asking the answer to a math problem. “Don’t you worry about doing things the way SRS did them? Like writing up mission reports. You don’t have to do that, but SRS trained you to do it.”

“So do I worry I’m still an SRS puppet?” Otter asked, and there wasn’t any trace of sneer in his voice, which surprised me a little. I nodded, and Otter flipped his notebook over and exhaled. “Here’s the thing, Jordan, the thing that no one wants to say—SRS is good at their jobs. They’re the best spies in the world. They create the best spies in the world. You think most nine-year-old girls understand the finer points of explosives engineering? No, but Kennedy does. There’s a reason SRS was able to ruin The League all those years ago, and it’s because they’re better than The League.

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