Page 17 of Hacker Revelation

Sophie worked at White Hat, and she would want to work on the Juan case. Anything she would find she would take to her sister or keep from me. I knew Kat and her sister wanted to be the ones to take Juan out. I didn’t blame them. But I didn’t want my wife or sister-in-law to get hurt.

“Why? You worried your wife will find out and kill them?” Neal laughed through the phone.

“How have you already heard about this?”

“It was announced in a group text.”

The friends in our inner circle needed to have more activities in their lives. Kat’s killing people was the least of my worries. I was worried we didn’t know exactly who was after her this time.

“Call me with what you find, and stop encouraging my wife’s killing habit.”

I was examining the tire when I heard the click of high heels. I knew who it was before I saw her. I wish she would have listened to me. Whoever vandalized her car could be watching.

I pulled her into my arms before she got too close to the car. “I thought I told you to stay in.”

“Why are you here, and why didn’t you want to have lunch?” She peeked around my shoulder and looked at her car. “I’m going to fucking kill him!”

She tried to pull out of my arms. I tightened my hold around her waist. “You know who did this?”

Kat rested her head on my chest, giving into my need to have her in my arms. “Well, no, but I will kill the person when I find out who it is.”

This was the reason I didn’t want her to see what happened. She didn’t think to call the police. She went straight to the need to kill the person who vandalized her car. “You promised no more killing. I called the cops, and here they come.” I pointed in the direction of the cop car. “You call the cops when there is an issue. You don’t take care of it yourself.”

Kat pulled away from my arms. She rested her hands on her hips, giving me her full attention. “I highly doubt every time you find something the cops should know about, you send them your report.”

I ignored her statement and greeted the detective that walked our way. “Detective Higgins, I would like you to meet my wife, Katherine Ross.” Higgins reached out his hand and greeted us both.

Detective Higgins had been with the local police force for thirty years. Over the past few years, we had worked a few cases with him. He was in his fifties and one of the hardest-working detectives I knew. Higgins would work overtime to make sure the bad guy went to jail.

“Nice to meet you, Mrs. Ross. What can I do for you?”

I motioned for him to walk with me toward Kat’s SUV. “I came to meet Kat for lunch, and I found her car like this.”

Detective Higgins bent down to look at the tire and took pictures of the tire and the side of the car. “This looks like it was done in anger. Can you think of anyone you might have upset?”

“A few people.”

“How can such a lovely lady have a few people after her?”

I knew Higgins was joking with my wife, but his flirtations made me see red. I wanted to punch him in the face. “Stop flirting with my wife. We need to figure out who is after her.”

Higgins wrote the details in his notebook and put it in his front pocket. “Always a man straight to the point. Never any fun.” He pointed in my direction and winked at my wife. “If you ever get sick of Antonio, call me.”

“We don’t need your help,” I grumbled.

“I like getting a rise out of you.”

My phone vibrated with a text from Neal letting me know what he found on the cameras near the Women’s Center.

“A friend of mine pulled video footage of the perp. Video quality sucks, though. All he could see was a man in a hooded black sweater and a black cap, white, about five feet eight. Sprayed the car and went down the alley. You want me to send the video to you?”

Higgins looked like he would take me up on the offer at first. Then he sighed. “No, I will find the video the proper way. Your guy probably hacked some cameras. We’ll see if we can get video from the alley. In the meantime, stay safe, and let us handle the case.” Higgins didn’t wait for us to respond before heading back to his car.

“Will do, Detective,” Kat called after him.

The twinkle in her eye told me she had other plans, and she wouldn’t call the cops if something like this happened again. I wouldn’t be surprised if she asked Sophie to pull the video footage when I looked at my phone to respond to Neal.

“Why don’t I believe a word that came out of your mouth?”

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