White Knights by Julie Moffett

Author:Julie Moffett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: True Airspeed Press
Published: 2017-12-14T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

ANGEL SINCLAIR

I loved my internship at X-Corp. I’d only been working there since early June, but it was beyond prime. Wally, Piper, and Brandon had been interning a bit longer—since last February—but we all knew we had it good and appreciated every moment under Lexi Carmichael’s excellent tutelage.

Lexi had been on my radar ever since she’d saved the school last winter. She was one of the few female tech heads I’d ever met and was, by far, the smartest.

I’d first met Lexi last May, just before she and my sister left on a trip to Egypt. That chance meeting afforded me the opportunity to help Lexi and her boyfriend, Slash, with an important mission. Slash is tall, dark, and Italian, and he works for the government in one of the intelligence agencies. He is hotness to the max and a wizard, which is what we hackers call a true god at the keyboard. I wish Lexi would tell me how she managed to find him and if he has a younger brother available. However, I seriously doubted she’d tell me. Lexi hates talking about her personal life even more than I do.

Just then, Lexi strolled into the cubicle area where we were working. She wore black slacks and a plain white sweater. Her long brown hair was pulled back into a ponytail, and she was devoid of makeup or jewelry. A pair of black computer glasses hung from the front of her sweater.

“Hey, guys. How’s it going?”

Wally looked up and lifted a hand. “Great. Piper and Brandon located the test firewall. Angel penetrated the device, and I’m running programs to determine what hosts are behind the filter—a router, packet filtering, or a redirection application. And that’s in the first ten minutes.”

Lexi patted Wally’s shoulder. “Right on schedule. Carry on.”

I stood nervously. “Hey, Lexi. Can I talk to you for a minute? Privately?”

“Sure.” She waved an arm at me. “Let’s go into my office.”

I followed her into a prime corner office. A long, sleek desk with a laptop and several monitors was flanked by bookshelves, and another corner featured a couple of laptops side by side, probably running algorithms or detection software. There were ceiling-to-floor windows and a coffee mug that read I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss. Lexi was twenty-six years old and she had shattered—no, obliterated—the glass ceiling in her corner of a heavily male-dominated tech industry. My hero—correction, heroine—indeed.

Instead of sitting behind her desk, Lexi perched on the arm of one of the visitor chairs while I sat in the chair adjacent to her. Even so, I couldn’t believe how nervous I was. What if she thought I was crazy, like the police did? I wasn’t sure I could handle that from her.

“So, Angel, what’s up?” Her eyes seemed interested and kind.

It took me a few moments, but I took a deep breath and told her. I started with the events from the very first day of school and brought it forward. I told her everything that had happened, omitting only the mention of my questionable mental state in the police report.

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