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“Would you rather I bite you?”
I smile, though it’s heavy, weighed down. “Depends on where? My nipples are very sensitive.”
“Go to sleep, Georgia. I’ll wake you when we get there.”
“Why won’t you tell me now? Now is later, and you told me you’d tell me later.”
After Lenox took five minutes to pack, he worked for the remaining two hours we were in the suite before we left for the airport. He’s been quiet—quieter—since. Or maybe just more stoic, keeping his cards close to his vest.
I know he found something in that time. I know it.
“Because you’re drugged.”
“It’ll distract me.” My eyes clench tight as the plane lifts off the ground. “Then you can tell me again when I’m more alert. You said there was stuff to figure out. What else is there to figure out?”
“Plenty,” he tells me, shifting in his seat and tapping his fingers on the armrest. “Alfie’s phone is very precise.”
“I don’t know what that means. Stop using three words when I need you to use at least fifty.”
He sighs. “It means everything on there is very deliberate and closed off. He has no banking apps, the only email account is his work email, all of his apps are very specific, things like airlines and such, but there are no saved passwords on his phone. Any laptop, iPad, or other electronic devices he owns are not linked. He has only a few text message streams, one with Ezra, one with you, a few members of the board, and your father. That’s it. Nothing is personal, not even with Ezra. Everything is business. I saw some of this on Ezra’s phone, but he’s sloppy and arrogant, has a strong weakness for money and a vice for expensive things, and that was his downfall. It made him careless, unlike his father.”
“Okay…” I draw out the word. “I appreciate that you used a lot of words, but I still don’t get it. What are you saying?”
“I’m saying it’s not simply Alfie’s business phone, Georgia. I’m saying he runs it the way a hacker would. The way a man who doesn’t ever want it to be used against him in a court of law or infiltrated by an enemy does. He has other devices, I’m positive of it, but this is a closed circuit with no access because he’s made sure it is. It makes sense why Ezra has a gatekeeper. His father is a hacker.”
Suddenly I’m dizzy and loopy all over again, and it has nothing to do with the Ativan or the ascending plane that dips and shudders, making me gasp.
“Is he evil or someone who uses his powers to fight evil?”
“Fight evil?” He raises an eyebrow at me.
“Like Batman, though you’re my Batman already. More like you have to be one to properly fight one.”
“I don’t know how he uses his skillset or how in-depth his skillset actually is yet. Does that answer your question?”
“Yes, but that was not nearly as fun as I was hoping for. I was hoping you’d give me some Jedi to Anakin Skywalker reference.”
“Now you’re mixing comic books and Star Wars.”
I yawn, twisting on his lap so he can get more of my hair because what he’s doing feels soooo good. “I don’t care. I like both. So what now?”
He smirks, a sparkle of challenge lighting his eyes. “Now I start to play, and you sleep, and if you don’t remember this conversation when you wake up, I’ll remind you.”
I let out a heavy breath, succumbing to the ministrations of his hand in my hair, allowing it to lull me into a half-awake, half-asleep stupor, and mumble, “Thank you.”
My cousin Zax doesn’t fuck around. When we land and deboard the plane, his driver, Ashley, is waiting for us. I make a beeline for him and throw my arms around his large shoulders.
“Ashley! Oh, Ashley.”
He laughs at my Gone with the Wind reference and squeezes me back. “The great state of Georgia. How are you, honey?”
“Better now that I’m off the plane and seeing you.”
“Glad to hear it. Come with me. We’re not going to Zax’s.”
“Oh.” That surprises me, and I turn to Lenox, who is his normal, stoic self, his face back on the screen of his phone after he gave Ashley a what’s up head nod. I slip inside the car, anxious to get out of the frigid November air. Lenox follows me in, typing on his phone. “Do you know where we’re going?”
“Rebels Field.”
