“What has he been doing on the mainframe?”
“Both times we’ve caught him he’s been looking at information about you.”
“Me?”
“Yes. Is there some old lover of yours out there who used to be Agency who might still be obsessed with you?”
“No. I don’t know anybody who fits that description, especially the obsession part. What did he want to know about me, do you think?”
“The first time, he was looking up background information on one Colonel James Bruno.”
“What kind of information?”
“The trial record of his court-martial and Bruno’s Florida driver’s license application.”
“Bruno is a suspect in the series of rapes and murders we’ve been having here,” Holly said. “The search could be related to that.”
“The other time we caught him, he went into your personnel records.”
“Holy shit,” Holly said involuntarily.
“Exactly. Who would want to do that?”
“I can’t imagine,” Holly said.
“I can imagine somebody who might be just a tiny bit obsessed with you.”
“Enlighten me, please.”
“You attended the opera with him once, and you may have put a bullet in him at one point. Let’s not mention any names.”
Holly winced. “You say you haven’t been able to pin down his location?”
“Not yet. He may be on the move, but the last time, our geek thought he might be somewhere in Florida.”
“You think he might be looking for revenge?”
“Possibly, but he wouldn’t need your personnel file for that; he’d just find you and kill you.”
“Well, yes. Maybe he hasn’t gotten over our last encounter.”
“Perhaps not, but I don’t have any sense that you’re in any real danger. You might keep an eye out for him, though, or for someone who might be him.”
“I take your point.”
“Then go armed and be careful.”
“I’ll do that,” Holly replied.
The screen went blank. Holly shut down the computer and left the little office. She walked into the kitchen to find Josh, naked, making coffee.
He jumped. “Where did you come from?”
“I was just on the phone.”
“Where? I couldn’t hear you.”
“In a secret place,” she said. “You look very nice.”