The Omega Team: Keeping Karen (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Heather Long

Author:Heather Long [Long, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2016-02-15T17:00:00+00:00

Three days in Destin and Ethan was no closer to who was after Karen than he had been when they left DC. Grey and his people continued to track down leads. He’d checked his voicemail and found three heated messages from his direct supervisor. No one in the marshal’s office was happy with his disappearing act. Since he’d already considered a change in careers, he might find the wheels greased on his way out the door.

Meanwhile, Karen populated his every thought. She slept in his bed, drank coffee in his kitchen and while he reviewed the case notes he’d been building, and sat opposite him in the living room. Luthor sprawled in a patch of sunlight near the windows, but Karen had her laptop open and typed away.

“This would be easier if I could access the internet.” Every day she tried a new approach to the argument. The first time it had been she wanted to help him investigate the people after her. Not only no, but hell no. Her digging into accounts had already gotten her into trouble.

“No,” he said, flipping to the next page of notes. The primary investigators had taken her statement after her car detonated. Though they listed her as in shock, she said hadn’t seen anyone near her vehicle nor noticed anything suspicious. The apartment complex she lived in had passive security—a gate which required a code or a gate opener to enter and exit. However, as the officers noted, ghosting in behind a resident was fairly common and easily accomplished.

The security on her apartment itself was similarly unremarkable. A couple of deadbolts and a standard security package, though she insisted she changed her passcodes regularly. That, Ethan believed. Her work was pretty complex and involved computer security. She wouldn’t rely on the same standard passcodes installed with the software nor keep it something simple like her social security number or birthday.

“Ethan, I do have a job, and I know how to mask my IP.”

“I said no.” In addition to her work for the banks, her other clients included everything from universities to Silicon Valley corporations. They hired her to test their electronic security; some even sent her new firewall protocols so she could investigate how to bypass them. Overall, she had a stellar reputation in the business.

One of the FBI agents noted the cyber crimes division vetted her for a possible job. Intrigued, he flipped to the background report. It listed a great deal of personal information about her, from where she grew up, to the university she’d attended, to the long list of her employers.

“I’m not a child, and you ignoring me when I’m talking to you is rude.” Yep, he’d irritated her.

“So is you asking the same set of questions over and over. I’m not going to let you put yourself into danger, Karen. I know you. You’ll mask your IP and try to ghost back into the system where you found the information in the first place. Then you’ll try to backtrack the money—a job I’ll remind you someone else is already doing.

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