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“Oh dear.” She pursed her lips, then licked her thumb and tried to rub it on my chin. “You’ve got some jam—”
“It’s a medley of blood and desire, Marilyn. It’s not jam!”
“Ohh,” she giggled. “Odd name for a jam, don’t you think? Brands these days.”
The elevator dinged and I hurried out the door kicking my way into the file room to find Kat...gone.
“Hey, obsidian nightmare.”
How did she get behind me? I turned. “Kat.”
“For me?” She slid her hand over the laptop box and then snatched it. “Acceptable. Also this is an MSI Raider GE66-15 with Intel i7-12700H 14-Core processing and 64GB DDR5 4800MHz RAM.”
“Indeed.”
Now you know and I know that I don’t know what she’s talking about. But she wanted a laptop and somehow I’d been hypnotized, perhaps by the sheer bliss of her blood in my veins, to get it for her. If you’re not alarmed by now you should be.
“This will do nicely,” she said, tiptoeing to kiss my cheek. “And then maybe later, you can make me undead. We’ll see if time allows, won’t we?”
“We won’t.”
Her dark eyes glittered up at me. “Let’s get this gear hooked up. I have accounts to sweep.”
She slipped back into the file room and opened her gift. Her long black fingernails clattered over the keys, her gum popping and her eyes focused on the ones and zeroes on her screen.
“Damn.”
“Damn?”
“I can’t breach his firewall. Not for all the tuna in Wisconsin. ” She wrinkled her nose. “Keif? Why so much protection, Keif?”
“Wait.”
She glanced at me. “Waiting.”
“Why are you trying to rob Keif in the first place? He can’t have much to begin with.”
“Oh he’s devastatingly rich. Inheritance. He’s put a lot into LoveBubble investments and that’s what I’m going to...repurpose.”
“So you’re robbing both Keif and LoveBubble?”
“Sure am.” She started typing once more. “That alright?”
“Oh yes. Yes. That’s perfect.”
“So um...he’s got a firewall...generated by someone in this building, looks like.”
“You’re kidding.”
“Nope. It’s someone here.” She closed the laptop. “But the question is...who?”
I hated that the corner of my lip twitched. “Shall we...seek out the enemy...and vanquish them...together?”
“On one condition.”
“Name it.”
“Keep calling me Sweets.” She winked. “I like that shit.”
