Page 55 of Affair
“Unfortunately for them, Elizabeth, they do not know,” she admitted. “You can’t hear that helicopter from inside. All of that concrete blocks the sound,” she admitted. “Plus, when you messaged me that you were arriving, I may have shut the alarms down.”
She laughed.
“Ah, and there is my accomplice,” she said. “You never let me down, MATE.”
Gene protested.
“I thought that was me. You know…ride or die to the end? Sound familiar?” he asked.
She winked at him.
“I live to get Zayn stirred up. It annoys the hell out of him that I can just show up. That’s half the fun of messing with him.”
MATE had bad news for her.
“He’s not here,” MATE said. “He’s on the screen, checking in, but he’s not in the building. He’s with Stella and his new daughter.”
Oh, someone had tried to keep that secret, but she’d been three steps ahead of him. If they didn’t think she didn’t have eyes on her people…
They.
Were.
Wrong.
Truth be told, Elizabeth loved messing with him. MATE wasn’t her only intel gatherer.
“Is the baby’s name the same?” she asked, hoping it was. She had already planned some fun.
Well, fun for her.
Because this was the woman she was modeled after, her mother, of sorts, MATE played accomplice. That was, after all, why she was created—to help Elizabeth at all costs. Her father had made that perfectly clear.
“Honestly, he went tame this time. They named her Tulip. He tried to keep that name from us, at first, but when I searched the database, using all of his aliases, I found it.”
Elizabeth grinned.
Oh, well, let the fun begin.
“Let’s get The Hunters working, and let’s torment a big, paranoid nut.”
MATE chortled.
“Yes, Mother.”
“Oh, boy,” Gene said.
Elizabeth winked at the hologram. She was like a child to her, and she and Chris never had biological babies together. They made MATE together.
So, she was hers.
As for tormenting Zayn…
The insanity was about to begin.
* * * Hunters * * *
Fifteen Minutes Earlier
