Chapter 81Sophie returned to her cubicle and slumped back into her chair. She was tired. She valued her sleep and wasn’t in the habit of working through the night. The last time she did, she was trying to crack the encryption on a foreign spy satellite. She went down the rabbit hole as she referred to it and didn’t sleep or eat for three days. Sheppard tried to get her out of her tunnel vision by physically picking her up and moving her away from her computer, an attempt he regretted almost immediately when Sophie’s knee collided with his groin. He went down to one knee, and Sophie went back to her computer. She eventually snapped out of it when she collapsed from dehydration on the third day.
She tapped a few buttons on her computer and entered her password. A few clicks later and she ha
