Page 30 of Black Reign

“That is not how friendship works.”

“It's exactly how ours works.”

Kane laughs.

“What do you actually know?”

“Enough.”

“Real name?”

“No.”

“Where she lives?”

“No.”

“Face?”

“No.”

Drew stares.“Xavier.”

“I know.”

“How old?”

“Approximately our age-ish?”

“The fuck?” Vales scratches his invisible beard. It sounds bad even to my own ears.

“I've verified enough incidental information.”

Vale's eyebrow lifts. “You investigated her.”

“I've attempted to.”

Leo sits forward. “Wait.”He starts laughing. Not because it's funny. Because he can't believe it. “You can't find her?”

“No.”

That gets every one of them.

Haverhill sighs, “Bullshit.”

Drew points. “Exactly.”

Vale looks at me like I've presented him with mathematically impossible accounting.

Leo says it slowly. “You are the king of the digital underworld, and you cannot find one woman?”

“She understands how I search.”

“You can find anyone.”

“Usually.”

Drew's head snaps up.