Firewalkers by Chris Roberson

Author:Chris Roberson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Firewalkers
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Published: 2018-03-21T04:00:00+00:00

By the time Patrick walked back into the house, the bag of donuts was already half empty, but he told himself that was still more than enough for Joyce and the others. The two that he’d eaten on the way home had been filling enough that he would probably only want one more, himself.

The house was filled with the smell of coffee brewing, and voices coming from the doorway to the kitchen. Hanging his jacket on its hook by the door and putting his pistol on a side table, Patrick walked into the kitchen to find that Izzie had taken over one end of the dinner table as her workstation, and was sitting in front of her laptop deep in concentration, with a legal pad at one elbow and a stack of papers and hardcover journals at the other. Daphne and Joyce were sitting across from one another at the other end of the table, each with a steaming cup of coffee, and were currently engaged in what seemed to be a fairly spirited discussion.

“Um, hey guys,” Patrick said. And then, when all three women turned to him with annoyed expressions on their faces, he held up the paper bag and added, “Anybody want a donut?”

Joyce sat back with her arms folded over her chest, fuming silently, while Daphne scowled as she took a sip of her coffee.

“What’d I miss?” Patrick sat the bag of donuts on the table and went to fetch some plates and napkins.

“Not enough.” Izzie straightened up and pushed her laptop away from her, a look of annoyance on her face. “For one thing, your wifi’s bandwidth is for crap.”

“Yeah, I always . . .” Patrick put the plates on the table, then turned to look at Izzie, raising an eyebrow. “Hey, how were you able to log in? I didn’t give you the password.”

Izzie sat back, rolling her eyes.

“For a cop, you’ve got a pretty lousy sense of security.” Izzie nodded in the direction of the wireless router in the corner of the room, sitting atop a rat’s nest of cords and cables. “I needed to do some research online and didn’t want to have to wait until you got back, so I tried the default password that the manufacturer printed on the back of the router, and was able to log in no problem.”

Patrick glanced over at the router and then back to Izzie, a blank expression on his face.

“You can reconfigure the router and choose your own password when you set them up,” she said. “You do know that, right?”

“Okay, okay,” he said, dismissing the criticism with a wave as he went to grab a cup of coffee for himself. “But I’m guessing that’s not why things seem so tense in here, right? Or did you all get in a disagreement about my substandard cyber security?”

“Look, if I seem tense,” Izzie shot back, “it’s only because these two won’t knock it off and let me concentrate on what I’m reading.”

She waved her arm

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