Wired Dark by Toby Neal

Author:Toby Neal [Neal, Toby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Toby Neal

Sophie called her father as she drove to the gym late that afternoon. “I’m sorry it’s taken so long to get in touch with you, Dad.”

“You were reaching your check-in limit, my girl.” As usual, her father’s warm, deep voice filled her with a sense of reassurance. The world couldn’t be that far off-kilter with Francis Smithson in it. “I was getting ready to activate the emergency network.”

Sophie chuckled, an unfamiliar sound. She cleared her throat. “Well, I was on Maui with a case and then…the man I was dating was killed.” Saying the words, telling someone who mattered to her about Connor’s death, made the situation she’d been struggling with bloom into stark reality. Tears filled Sophie’s eyes, and her hands trembled on the steering wheel as she braced herself to explain the circumstances to her father.

His exclamations and rapid-fire questions hit her like bullets, but she forged ahead, describing how a bomb had gone off in Remarkian’s apartment, and that she now had not one, but two dogs. “The FBI needs to get into your place to look for any trace related to identifying Remarkian’s body. It’s improbable that anything remains from his stay there, but I hope you’ll allow that.”

“Of course. I’m so sorry, darling.” Her father sighed, long and low. “You’ve had an unfair amount of grief to bear in this life.”

“I believe that to be true. I’m unlucky.”

“No, Sophie, no.” His protestations made no difference to the truth she knew in her bones—even as the rational part of her mind argued it was another myth, part of the depression.

Sophie pulled into a parking stall outside of the strip mall housing the gym. The bright sunshine of another day in paradise smote her sore eyes as she removed her sunglasses. “I’m all right, Dad. I’m going to the gym. And then I’m returning to Maui for my case. It will be good to be working again.”

“I’ve always found work to be a tonic,” her father agreed. “I’ll be over for a visit in a couple of weeks. We can spend some time together then. Are you staying in the apartment?” Frank had encouraged her to live in his penthouse apartment in the swanky area of Nu‘uanu, and Sophie had lived there for the first five years she was on Oahu and in the FBI—but recent events had turned a former sanctuary into a place where she felt vulnerable.

“No, Dad. I’m at my other place. We’ll talk soon.” She hung up before he could argue with her about that, too. He didn’t like her identity as Mary Watson, nor the run-down area where she’d rented her off-the-grid apartment.

Sophie looked around the brightly lit, modern interior of her new gym. Mary Watson could not go to her old, beloved gym, Fight Club, with its dim, barnlike lighting and many memories. This new place, Fighting Fit, would have to do.

Hitting the heavy bag sent reverberations through Sophie’s whole body, each blow like striking a drum.

Amazing how quickly she’d gotten out of fighting shape.

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