Chapter 30

tossed it back and forth between her hands. “I got to spend the last hour in C

Wing communing with a gerbil.”

Leon’s face scrunched up. “Wait, what?”

“You really don’t want to know.”

He took the metal planet from her and set it back in its holder,

straightening the base to square alignment. He resumed eye contact with her

to continue their telepathic conversation. “Okay, so C Wing. You’ve already

been somewhere I’ve never had access to. I doubt hanging out here with me

is going to get you anywhere.”

“Yeah, but I didn’t have a computer down there.”

“Kira, you cannot use my computer to hack into the MTech system,”

Leon said in a terse mental tone.

“When you agreed to be liaison for this mission, you committed to help

me out with anything I needed to uncover the target information. Right now,

that’s use of your computer.”

“You’re going to get me fired—or worse.”

“The very fact that you’re worried about an ‘or worse’ is precisely why