CHAPTER 43
WHEN LUKE WENT into the control room the next morning, he found Mack already at her station. Judging by the dark smudges under her eyes, she’d had as little sleep as him. Her gaze dropped to his hands, or more specifically what he held in them.
“Coffee? You’re a lifesaver.”
“Two sugars, right?”
“Mmm. I should cut down. One day...”
He took his seat beside her. “Anything?”
“Not yet. I still can’t get into this server. Can we try again together?”
“Of course.”
Side-by-side, they tried everything they could think of to get through the encryption, but to no avail. The clock ticked around to eleven, and Mack needed to head off to another meeting with some shadowy government department she wouldn’t even tell him the name of.
“There’s something we’re not seeing,” she said before
