The Price of Time by Tim Tigner

Author:Tim Tigner [Tigner, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781797738161
Google: ULpCxAEACAAJ
Amazon: B07NXXYG1G
Goodreads: 43697790
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-04-10T23:00:00+00:00

41

Face the Truth

THE RESILIENCE of Skylar’s mind astonished me. Less than a day out of the oven and her hard drive was spinning without wobbles or skips. Professional agents often cracked in the wake of their first close call, but she was powering through. Apparently Ironman training transformed nerves from flesh into steel.

After our early-morning breakthrough, I went in search of a razor while Skylar went for a run. A run. I’d offered her the bathtub, certain that she’d want to indulge in a long hot soak as she had after her interview with Tom. I certainly would have felt the urge, both for a bath and a bottle of Bordeaux. But despite the humidity, she’d opted for exercise.

Skylar wasn’t even stymied by her lack of workout clothes. She just bought a bathing suit from the drugstore that supplied my shaving tackle and headed out to run barefoot on the sand.

I shaved, then hit the hotel business center. When I returned to the room after a couple of hours on the computer, I expected to find Skylar sawing logs. But there was no sign of her. Instead of searching, I updated the note explaining my whereabouts and left for the mall.

Entering our room upon my return, I heard her singing in the shower. She’d moved the bedside clock radio into the bathroom and was belting it out along with Adele. Unbelievable what endorphins could do.

I knocked twice, cracked the bathroom door, and slid one of my shopping bags into the steamy room as the singing stopped. “I got you some clothes and a few toiletries.”

“Thanks. Be right out.”

I went to the balcony with the hope that the sun would soon bring the humidity under control, and booted up my new computer.

Skylar joined me ten minutes later. She looked radiant. Even in basic jeans and a plain cotton shirt. Very healthy. I resolved to get more exercise.

“You’re good with sizes. You even nailed the shoes. And the bra.”

“I checked your tags. Apologies for the privacy invasion. I weighed the options and pragmatism won.”

“No worries.” She gestured toward the iPhone on the end table. “Did you get Tom’s picture from the cloud.”

“I did. I sent it off to Lesley.”

“Lesley?”

“Lesley Franna is the friend at the agency I referred to earlier. A crack analyst.”

“How long before you hear back?”

“Depends on how busy she is. I gave her the parameters she’ll need for an efficient query, so building it won’t take long. But she has to get to it first and I won’t be a top priority. Then the computer will take a few hours to do its thing. It will give her matches, beginning with the one the program considers the best match, then the second, and so on. Could be a very long list, and she won’t be able to share it with me. She’ll have to review it, so again that will be a time sink.”

Skylar grabbed the empty chair. “What do we do while we’re waiting?”

I answered her question with one of my own.

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