Code Conspiracy by Carol Ericson

Author:Carol Ericson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-10-15T17:48:33+00:00

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GRAY HAD CONVINCED her to keep the cap in her pocket until they could figure out what was what and who was who. He’d also convinced her to take a taxi to Times Square, but he hadn’t convinced her not to go.

As he slid into the taxi beside her, he said, “Why would Cedar send you two messages? He scrawled one on the door. Why send another through a message board, Kiera’s message board?”

“I don’t know, but keep your eye out for a scraggly dude with shoulder-length hair, maybe a man bun, and a backpack. Cedar always carries a backpack.”

“In Times Square? Easy.” He bent his head close to hers and whispered. “It’s the ones we can’t identify that worry me.”

The taxi crawled through the traffic until Jerrica couldn’t stand it anymore. She rapped on the divider. “You can pull over up here.”

As the car rolled to a stop, she jumped out while Gray handed the driver some cash.

She elbowed Gray in the ribs. “Don’t look so worried. If someone were following us, he would stand out like a sore thumb now, right? He’d be getting out of his taxi, too.”

Gray walked backward for a few steps, and then turned around. “Nobody’s following us—they’re probably waiting at the ticket booth instead.”

“This time I’m not going to be a sitting duck.” A few blocks later, Jerrica grabbed Gray’s hand and pulled him across the street toward the pedestrian area of Times Square. “We can hang out behind the bleachers and have a clear view of the kiosk.”

They stationed themselves at the corner of the stands where people scattered, taking seats to watch the carnival unfold before them.

Jerrica hoped to God she and Gray wouldn’t be providing any more excitement. A figure moved through the crowd wearing a cap like the one in her pocket. Jerrica’s heart skipped a beat.

She plucked at Gray’s sleeve. “I see someone with the cap. Three o’clock from the Spider-Man character.”

Gray moved closer to her and tucked an arm around her waist. “Skinny black kid with the earbuds?”

“Yes.”

“No man bun, no backpack. That’s not Cedar, is it?”

“Cedar’s a white guy. That is definitely not Cedar.”

“Then we leave. If you don’t know who that is, we get the hell out of here.”

“Even if we can take him in and get some intel out of him?”

“Take him in? Here?” Gray’s eyes widened. “That’s not gonna happen.”

“Wait.” Jerrica pulled the cap from her pocket. “I know him.”

“Are you sure?”

“I’m pretty sure, and it would make total sense right now.”

“Pretty sure is not good enough when it comes to your safety, Jerrica.” Gray slipped his fingers into the waistband of her jeans from behind as if to hold her back. “Who do you think it is?”

“That’s Russell Cramer—Kiera’s son.”

She moved forward and jerked to a stop as Gray pulled on her pants.

“Wait. If Kiera was compromised, how do we know they didn’t send out her son to lure you in again?”

“Really? He just lost his mother.” She twisted away from Gray and plunged into the crowd as she pulled the cap onto her head.

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