Page 179 of Dark Love

Do I believe him? “Fine, do the research, but report back to me.”

“How do I get through Mr. Vincenti?”

Not easily. “I’ll take care of him.”

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“Squirrely is an understatement. How does Shock even get any work done?” Max closes my office door.

“We’re not sure, but he does it.” All I need to do is distract Max for the next few hours. How am I going to do that? “I’m surprised you’re not over there geeking out with him.”

“My setup at work is slightly better. But if I didn’t leave, I think he would have had a heart attack or something. You need to cut off his caffeine consumption.”

“We tried that. Shock got even worse.” Those were a few weeks I don’t want to remember.

Max sits down at the other side of my desk. “Sounds like he has undiagnosed ADHD.”

Everyone nowadays seems to have ADHD. “We should get to work and not diagnose my hacker.” Hopefully, this means Max isn’t going to try to steal Shock.

“What do you know so far?”

“Not much. Our dirty cop procures women every few months based on his offshore account.”

“What bank?” Max’s voice raises slightly.

“Sun Savings. Shock plans to hack in and find out who is making the deposits into Plant’s account.”

“Mind if I use your desk?” Max gestures to his bag.

“No. Go right ahead.”

The metal briefcase that Max used to bring the board Shock wanted opens to reveal a laptop, which has Max’s company’s emblem on the cover.

When did they start making computers?

“There’s no need to hack when I do their security.”

Well, that’s convenient.

“Give me the account number.”

I slide the stack of papers over that Shock took off Plant’s laptop.

Max’s hands fly over the keys almost as fast as Shock’s.

Sometimes it’s hard to believe the Vincenti heir is a computer wiz.

“You don’t need to worry that I’ll leave a trail.”

Good, because I wasn’t.

“Oh, this is interesting.”

“What?” I walk around to his side of the desk.

“It’s an old account. A very old account that’s been paying Plant. Up until about a year ago, the account holder was paying an Eva Gardener twenty thousand dollars every six weeks. Then the payments just stopped.”

“How long was Eva receiving payments?”

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