Witch With a Grudge by T. R. Cameron & Martha Carr & Michael Anderle

Author:T. R. Cameron & Martha Carr & Michael Anderle [Cameron, T. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B09ZMJGYBT
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2022-06-22T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Friday morning was filled with important meetings, requiring Cait to be back in her proper hair, makeup, and sharply styled business suit, with Aza around her neck. It started with a discussion between the marshals and building security for the Moakley, trying to identify how the devices discovered during their sweep—several of them that were identical to the one they’d found in Judge Meyer’s chambers—could have gotten there.

That led to a bout of territorial defensiveness that occupied too much of the meeting before they agreed to review the employee files together. Her office’s concession was that it would include all employees, including the marshals. She thought that was petty but also a small and inoffensive price to pay.

When that was complete, she had a one-on-one with Chief Levitt. They talked about her time at the office so far, discussed the Special Operations Group (SOG) in greater detail, and then agreed she was doing a fine job and should keep doing so while keeping the lines of communication between them wide open.

After that, she took her phone into the conference room and participated in a videoconference with the SOG, a monthly update that discussed general procedural details before progressing into an animated conversation about what their annual extended training should cover this year. Her opinion was that they needed more expertise in stealth incursions. Based on the early discussion, though, it seemed like aerial deployment operations might wind up being the winner. That’s fine. It’s not like I’m too good to need practice at that, either.

Finally, noon arrived, and she readied herself to head out to the bank to get what she needed for the night’s adventure. Sabrina stopped her and asked, “Are you still looking for an apartment?”

Cait replied, “Yeah, actually.” While that task never completely left her mind, it also kept getting pushed into the back.

The infomancer smiled. “I’ve got a line on a great one for you. Word of mouth, not officially on the market. You want to come take a look? It’s not far by subway, so it shouldn’t take much time.”

She suppressed a reflexive frown at the potential change of plans. “As long as there’s time to get to the bank afterward.”

“The chief is taking a half-day, and last I checked, we don’t have a time clock. Plus, we wind up working weekends off the clock. If lunch goes a little long, no one’s going to fire us.”

Cait laughed. “Well, when you put it that way, sure. I’d love to.”

They took the subway in the basement of the building through a half-dozen stops, then walked out into a neighborhood filled with industrial-looking buildings. Sabrina gestured at one diagonally across the street. “It used to be a grain-processing factory. When it went out of business, it was empty for a while before a developer turned it into a bunch of separate apartments. The one we’re interested in is in the tall section off to the left.”

The nearest structure appeared to have been divided into three individual sections, two of them tall, the other only a couple of stories high.

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