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214 - Asset Or Contingency?
"Governments that want to understand what they're dealing with," Patricia said. "Private security organizations. Companies that want to know whether what happened here can happen again and whether it can be used." She folded her hands on the table. "The market for this type of intelligence has been growing for two years. Horizon Analysis wants to be the definitive source for it. Carter's package is the product that puts them there.""And what your government wants," Sora said, "is to control that information before anyone else can. Not just protect Titan. Control the picture.""Both," Patricia said. "I'm not going to pretend otherwise."Sora glanced at Jake. Something in the look said she appreciated the honesty more than a polished answer would have."After Antarctica," Patricia continued, "certain agencies became very aware that what your team represents doesn't exist anywhere else. Titan destabilized at the wrong moment means that capability is
213 - To The Asian Restaurant!
"That's what the logs are going to tell us," Sora said. "Harrison thinks by morning."Jake looked at the city through his window. Normal evening. Normal city."Sora," he said."Yes.""Patricia knew about Thursday before we told her. Renner is potentially feeding someone inside this building. And David Lim followed me to the hospital." He paused. "How many of these things are connected?"Sora was quiet for a moment. "All of them," she said. "I think all of them connect. We just haven't found the center yet."***The restaurant was a small Japanese place thirty minutes from Titan. No visible cameras from the street. Quiet enough that you could have a real conversation without performing it.'She picked somewhere good,' the Whisperer said as Jake walked in.'She picked somewhere she controls,' Jake thought back.'Same thing.'Patricia was already at the corner table when they walked in. G
212 - The Mole In Titan
The next morning Jake was at his desk at seven forty-five when Sora appeared in his doorway with her coffee."Patricia messaged me last night," Sora said, coming in and sitting down.Jake looked at her. "She has your number.""She apparently has everyone's number." Sora set her cup on his desk. "She wants to brief us on the Nexus situation before the board meeting Thursday.""She wants to brief us," Jake said. "Not the other way around.""She's offering information," Sora said. "Not asking for access. There's a difference worth noticing.""What kind of information?""She didn't get into specifics. She said she has documentation on what Nexus is building toward and who they're building it for." Sora picked up her cup. "She also said she thought we'd want to know before Carter's people came back to photograph the lobby a third time."Jake looked at her. "She knew he'd come back.""She predicted it. Which means she's been tracking his pattern long enough to know the next move before he m
211 - Lily's First Week (II)
"Four days," she said. "In between learning where the printer is and figuring out the coffee machine on the eighth floor, which requires a very specific button sequence that nobody told me about.""Jake. I've been doing that since Monday." Lily looked at him directly. "Every single piece of communication that's gone out about this building since I started has a gap in it somewhere. A thing that doesn't quite line up with the thing next to it. I've been patching those gaps blind because I don't know what I'm patching over." She leaned forward. "Give me enough to work with. Just enough. I've operated on partial information my whole career. What I cannot do is manage a story I'm completely invisible inside of.""What exactly are you asking for?" Jake said."I'm asking whether the attack was internal or external," Lily said. "I'm asking whether the people who did it are still a threat or whether that's done. I'm asking whether what happened in the lobby is something that could happen agai
210 - Lily's First Week (I)
Jake looked at the message. Read it again.Then typed back.{I appreciate the urgency. But today doesn't work for me. We'll find a proper time later this week.}He put his phone in his pocket and stepped into the elevator.His phone buzzed before the doors closed.{Mr. Morrison. David Lim followed you to the hospital this morning. He knows you're aware of Nexus. The timeline has shifted. This isn't a social meeting.}Jake read it in the elevator. The doors closed. He rode down to the ground floor.When the doors opened he typed back.{I understand the timeline has shifted. Mine hasn't. Later this week. I'll have my assistant confirm the day.}He walked out through the lobby toward the east entrance.He could see the coffee shop through the glass. Patricia Kwan was sitting at a table near the window with a coffee she wasn't drinking. She was looking at her phone. She looked up when he passed the window.Jake nodded at her. Kept walking.His phone buzzed in his hand.{You're passing the
209 - Someone's Watching
"Mei Ling sends me updates."Jake made a mental note to have a conversation with Mei Ling about that. "I'm sleeping adequately," he said."Go home," Marcus said. "Carter Voss isn't going anywhere tonight. Deal with him tomorrow."Jake ended the call. Sat at his desk. Looked at his phone.Opened Patricia Kwan's background file. Read through the clearance level again. The classification. The fifteen years of board placements. Six companies over three continents. All of them adjacent to something significant.He called Mei Ling."I need you to flag everything we have on Nexus to Patricia Kwan's contact information," Jake said. "The properties. Carter Voss. The lobby man. All of it.""Now?" Mei Ling said."Right now. I want to see how fast she responds and what she leads with."Mei Ling sent it. Jake watched the time on his phone.Eleven minutes later Patricia responded. One sentence.{I h
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