After the incident with Hans, Rose’s mind was too occupied and too much in shock to think about anything else. The teenage boy hacker, Cole, was hired by some unknown party from Autostock XM, and though Rose had desperately wanted to find out whom it was, that was the least of her concerns.
As soon as she entered the car in the underground parking lot, her body practically collapsed on to the leather seats.
There was a partition between the back seats and the driver’s so she was glad that he could not see or hear her slouch forward, breathing heavily.
She clutched at her chest, her heart beating so painfully fast that she struggled to breathe. She needed to compose herself before Xander and Eric would return. What would they think of her if they saw her in so vulnerable a state? Her vi
