World Order by David Archer

Author:David Archer [Archer, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-14T22:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

Danny McRae looked up when the keys rattled in the door, and then got to his feet. “Already?” he asked.

“They need you in the control room,” said the man standing in the hallway. Like all the others, he was dressed in black and wearing sunglasses.

“Whatever you say, Agent K,” Danny said. He stepped out of his bunk room and turned left, knowing exactly where to go.

The control room was a large section of the building in which he was housed, with numerous workstations set up. It looked a lot like the accounting office in a big corporation, he thought, but he kept his thoughts to himself. He had already learned that speaking up when he wasn’t addressed was a mistake.

He sat down at the computer he had been assigned and waited for his instructions. He knew better than to touch the keyboard before he was told to, but it was only a couple of seconds later when the woman appeared. Her name tab simply said, “Janet,” but he was fairly certain that wasn’t her real name.

“Good morning,” she said with a smile. “Ready to get to work again?”

“Why, certainly, Janet,” Danny replied, returning the smile. “What do you need me to do today?”

“Well, I think you should just keep going on the system upgrade. You’ve been doing a fantastic job, you know.”

“I’m trying,” he said. “This is—this is the most awesome thing I’ve ever seen, Janet. I’d give anything to be part of the permanent staff here. Think there’s any hope of that happening?”

“I already told my superiors that you feel that way,” she said. She gave him a coquettish grin. “I even sort of mentioned that I wouldn’t mind having you around steadily. I hope that’s okay?”

Danny reached out and touched her hand for a split second, and her smile grew wider. “I’d like that,” he said. “To be honest, I find myself wishing I had met you under other circumstances. I think you and I could have had some fun together.”

She giggled and winked. “Maybe we still can,” she said. “You just keep doing good work, and I’m pretty sure they’ll be glad to have you come aboard. Once that happens, we could—well, we could get to know one another better.”

“Sounds like a dream come true,” he said. “Well, I better get to work if I want to impress your bosses.” He winked at her, then turned back to the computer terminal and logged on, using the ID and password she had given him when he had been brought in a couple of days earlier.

At the time, he had thought of himself as a prisoner, and he had been terrified of what was going to happen to him. When they explained to him that they needed his computer skills, and allowed him brief glimpses of some of the things that were visible in the compound, he began to think of it as more of an opportunity than a danger. He was actually inside the operation he had been

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