It took a moment for Dean to recover. Cursing Chris silently, he pulled out his laptop and sat in the chair next to Chloe’s bed. At that moment, he felt like he was put in a hot seat. Declining Chloe’s request would be out of character for he had always doted on his sister. But disclosing the truth she wanted to learn was like breaking his man-to-man agreement with Chris.
Dean sucked his breath and keyed in several codes to to bypass the security of the city’s traffic database. Chloe’s gaze was boring into his hands and he found it difficult to fake his movements. From the corner of his eyes, he could see Tony fidgeting with his fingers as if he was on the brink of collapse.
Well, even if the boy was a rare, gifted genius, all these lying and secrecy were too much of a pressure for a fiv
