Page 5 of Misunderstood Hacker

Her head flew up in surprise. “I didn’t hear you come in,” she said loudly, waking Sam. “As for your question, NASA hascool satellites.” When Patty flipped her laptop around, her screen showed a satellite map of the nature preserve where Jessica’s car was hit.

I grabbed my laptop out of my bag. “Can you send me what you find?”

“That’s the thing. It seems someone deleted the satellite imagery during the time we need.”

It was risky to tamper with data when you hacked in somewhere. Thinking of another way we could find the data, I asked, “Have you looked at the backups? NASA’s servers should back up immediately.”

I heard movement coming from the bed. When I glanced up from my laptop to check on Jessica, herprettygray eyes opened.

I hurried to her side and grabbed her hand.“Jessica,” I whispered.

“W-Who are you?”

Those three words made my world topple over.

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