Chapter 234

MARCO GLANCED AT THE bathroom door once more. Fiona could always come out to grab something she'd forgotten. He needed to take this call downstairs.

"Hang on," he said into the receiver.

He padded down the stairs and let himself out onto the porch before holding the phone back up to his ear.

"Okay, go ahead." He paced around the porch to the back, where he could look out over the desert.

"I can't stop the data crawler without direct access to NueEnergy's system," Ghost said.

"Fuck...I thought you could?"

"I never said I could. I tried. All you told me to do was stop it. I can't."

"Ghost..." Marco turned in place and stalked back across the porch.

"I am getting things. It's kicking back the right kind of data."

"That doesn't help us with this situation." He gestured at the house, as though Ghost knew Fiona was there, nearby.