Fractured Lies (MAC Security 1)

“I called him.” Evan said and turned the laptop round.

“Could have said something,” Luke moaned sitting back at the table.

“Can I?” Charlie said pointing to the chair next to me.

My back straightened, I didn’t think he’d do anything to me but that didn’t stop the feeling that spread through me.

He either didn’t see my reaction or he didn’t care because he sat down and grinned at me. On instinct I moved closer to Ty, my hands clutched in my lap and my knee bobbing up and down.

Ty’s hand gripped my knee stopping the movement. I moved my eyes to him, he nodded telling me that he was here.

He knew.

He could read me so well. He always knew.

“First thing,” Evan pointed to the screen. “He’s not working alone.”

“Who’s he working with?” Kitty leaned forward.

“I don’t know that yet” Kitty rolled her eyes at Evan and sat back.

“How do you know he’s not working alone?” Ty asked.

“Because I found entries that name Daley.”

“So?” Kitty sneered.

“If he was working alone he wouldn’t have put his own name in” I interrupted.

Evan snapped his fingers and pointed to me. “Exactly.”

So this meant we were looking for more than one person. This job just got a whole lot harder.

“So how does Daley fit in?”

“I don’t know” Evan shook his head at Ty.

“All the information we had said that he was at the top” Charlie frowned.

“And where did you get that information?” Kitty sneered in a way that I hadn’t heard her talk before.

I scanned Kitty and Charlie. They were staring at each other, having some kind of silent conversation.

“Put your claws away Kitty,” he rolled his eyes and turned to Ty. “Bro, we were told he was working alone.”

Ty nodded drumming his fingers on my knee. I bit my lip as I tried to concentrate the sensation distracting.

“I managed to get into the encrypted files but nothing makes much sense,” Evan huffed “but I know that they took another girl Friday night.”

“Fuck.” Ty spluttered.

They took another girl? While we were out trying to get this information they were taking another girl away from her family?

I felt sick. Physically sick.

“We haven’t had any missing person’s reports.” Charlie pulled out his phone.

“She was taken from the road leading up to the country club”