The image of her white-knuckled grip on the laptop was seared into my mind. I stayed in her office for a long moment, the scent of her panic still hung in the air.
“She took the bait,” Leon said, stepping in from the shadows of the corridor. He didn’t look as satisfied as I felt. He looked like a man watching someone play with a live grenade. Maybe he was.
“She did more than that, Leon. She walked right into the heart of the maze, and thinks she found a map.” I traced the spot on the desk where the laptop had sat. “She’s clever. The Singapore server was smart. Most humans wouldn’t know how to route a VOIP call through an encrypted tunnel.”
“And Thorne?” Leon asked.
A dark smile started spreading across my face. Then, “Thorne played his part well because he’s paid to. He didn’t tell
