Page 28 of Guarding the Doctor
“So what’s your plan for tonight?” I asked over a late lunch of boxed macaroni and cheese with canned tomato soup. I really wished that Yuri had come back with us. Or one of his brothers, I’d heard they were all excellent cooks.
“Martha and Lois are going to run comms from the conference room one floor up,” Darla told me. “We already verified that no one on that floor works on Sundays, so it should be safe for them to set up a command post there.”
She ate a spoonful of macaroni and cheese, wincing slightly. I guess I wasn’t the only one missing Yuri’s cooking.
“Yuri’s going to be mopping the floor and keeping watch while Wanda and I go inside. Wanda’s got a scrambler that should open the door and not leave a digital trail.”
“What if it doesn’t work?” I asked.
“We’ll blow off a door handle if we need to,” she answered, “But then they’ll know we were there, so hopefully it won’t come to that.”
“Wanda’s really good at this kind of thing,” Cassie added. “If she says she can beat the scanner, she can. Once we’re inside, Wanda’s going to put trackers on the computers.”
“How?” I asked.
“Depends on the set-up. In some cases she inserts a USB that installs code on the computer, in other cases she connects this little box thing to the wires that allows us remote access to the machine,” Darla explained. “To be honest, I don’t understand it all, but we’ve done it before, and it works so that’s good enough for me.”
“And what about you?” I asked. “What will you be doing?”
Her face turned grim. “Looking for victims.”
A few hours later Bella arrived to stay with me and Cassie while Darla joined the team prepping at the Sapphic Security offices.
“You remember where the safe room is, right?” Darla asked as she strapped a holster around her shoulder and then checked the safety on her gun. Once she put on her leather jacket, you couldn’t tell she was carrying a weapon.
“Yes.” They’d shown it to me our first night here. There was a secret door at the back of the kitchen pantry that held a small safe room with its own ventilation system and a bullet proof door.
“If anything happens, you go to the safe room and don’t open the door unless it’s one of the team on the other side,” she instructed. “Don’t hesitate. If Bella or Cassie tell you to go, you go.”
“Are we expecting an attack while you’re gone?” I asked curiously. Maybe she was nervous about us being apart too.
“No, but it’s better to have a plan.”
Behind her back, Bella and Cassie were rolling their eyes.
“I promise I’ll use the safe room if anything happens,” I promised, wanting to reassure her.
“Even if someone’s injured and you think they need medical attention?” she asked.
My eyes went to Bella and Cassie again. There was no way I’d go hide in a safe room if they were bleeding out or something.
“I can’t promise you that.”
Darla sighed. “Okay, I’ve got to go.”
To my surprise, she grabbed my shoulders and pulled me close, giving me a quick, hard kiss in front of her coworker and sister.
“Be safe, mate.”
“You be safe too,” I replied.
Our eyes met and held for a long moment until Bella broke the mood.
“For the love of God, she’s breaking into a lab, not going to war. You’d better get a move on, little sister, before Lois has your ass.”
With a mock glare at her sister, Darla took off, leaving me with the other two agents.
“Did y’all have dinner yet?” Bella asked.
