Under Your Skin by Lee Winter

Author:Lee Winter [Winter, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ylva-Publishing
Published: 2018-05-08T22:00:00+00:00

Three hours later, Lauren had plowed through hundreds of search pages. She nudged Catherine in the foot. Her fiancée had curled up on the bed to “take stock” and appeared to have dozed off an hour ago.

“Hey.”

Catherine’s eyes flickered open. “Find something?” she asked, her voice thick with sleep.

“Sherlock Holmes comes to mind.”

“Oh?”

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” Lauren pointed at a page with a blank screen except for a tiny symbol at the top left and an input box with a blinking cursor. “All the other pages went somewhere, had links, or related to something specific with my search terms. This? This relates to nothing. And somehow it comes up in our search results even though I don’t see political climate change anywhere.”

Catherine leaned forward and read aloud: “Welcome, associates. Please enter password.”

“So, any ideas?”

“Did you look up the logo?” She indicated the shape near the top of the page. It was like a black five-leaf clover, without the stem, sitting in a bronze circle.

“It doesn’t seem to mean anything,” Lauren said. “Although it does look vaguely familiar, but I can’t think why.”

“We could be fixating on a completely unrelated page.”

“So then why’s it in the search results?”

Catherine shrugged. Her gaze shifted back to the password box. “Try and enter Michelle’s name?”

Lauren typed it in the box.

Access Denied.

“Baldoni’s?”

Access Denied. You have been permanently locked out.

“That is some serious security.” Lauren squinted at the screen. “That’s okay.” She flipped to the email program and wrote a quick note. “I’m asking Josh to show it to Snakepit and Duppy. Maybe his hacker bros can find a way in.”

“Good idea. Ask about the logo while you’re at it.”

Lauren nodded and added a question. She glanced at Catherine. Well, at least her expression had lost its pinched look. She still looked washed out, though. “Hey, you doing okay?”

“She had a husband. The whole time. For all I know she’s straight!”

“And maybe she’s bi and thought you were the hottest lover she’d ever had. Who knows? It’s confusing for me, too. I hate she had that time with you.” Lauren stopped. “Sorry. This should be about you. Just ignore me.”

“Both is possible. We could both hate her.”

“True.” Lauren grinned. “So, what’s next? While we wait for our hackers?”

“I think it’s time we ran Hickory’s background and donors through the wringer and see what we can squeeze out.”

“And we also have to figure out how our two stories are linked, right? Michelle said they were.”

“Michelle said a lot of things,” Catherine’s eyes turned hard. “And not once did she mention a husband. She could even have two kids and a pet beagle. You know what? I’m done talking about her for the day.”

“No problem. So, what shall we do instead?” Lauren’s expression turned thoughtful. “Talk about which of the bakers we saw should do our wedding cake?”

“Well, that’s one option. Although I’ll be honest and admit I hated them all. Buttercream on everything? Must we?”

“It’s popular out here.

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