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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
208 - Nexus
Mei Ling had the Carter Voss picture in forty minutes.Jake was still at his desk with his third coffee when she sent the message. Conference room. Now. He took the coffee with him.Sora was already there when he arrived. Harrison came in thirty seconds later still buttoning his jacket.Mei Ling put Carter Voss on the screen without preamble.Late thirties. Good looking photo. The kind of photo that looked professionally managed without being obvious about it. No public profile worth mentioning before Nexus Group appeared eighteen months ago."Real or constructed?" Jake asked."The person is real," Mei Ling said. "The profile is sixty percent constructed. Everything before eighteen months ago is either missing or minimal and that kind of minimal takes work to achieve." She pulled up the financial structure behind him. "But the money patterns go back further. Whoever Carter Voss is, he's been building toward something for a long t
207 - Visitors And Complications
Elena knocked at quarter past four and came in without waiting for an answer, which was just how Elena operated.She sat down across from Jake. Not on the desk. In the actual chair. She had a folder in her hand that she set on her lap and didn't open."Lily got the job," she said."She did," Jake said."I heard she negotiated her own terms in the first fifteen minutes."Jake looked up from the amendment. "How do you know that?""Mr. Harrison mentioned it to Magnus. Magnus mentioned it to me in the elevator." Elena shrugged. "This building has no secrets despite being half under construction." She tapped the folder on her lap. "I looked up her work. After she got shot I was curious about who she was. The Meridian contracts story she broke last year was really sharp. She sat on information for three weeks while everyone else rushed to publish and when she finally released it there was nothing anyone could dispute.""Yeah," Jake said. "That's Lily.""She's going to be good here," Elena s
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