We drove home after that. I figured that that would be the last time I’d ever be in The Den again. Like so much I’d been wrong about, I was wrong about this as well.
“Well,” said Todd as he drove, with me by his side and the others in the back. “Now you have the drive and, presumably, the information about yourself, about your parents.”
I nodded. I wasn’t smiling. “Uh huh.”
Doug tapped me on the shoulder. “We heard what he said, Lucas. That you may not like what you find on there.”
To which Simon added, “But what if he was just saying that, so that you wouldn’t want the drive. Like you said, he’s trying to protect the senator. You have the drive; the senator more than likely could lose everything with whatever information is on there.”
My frown sunk lower on my face. “But what if he w
