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He opened it to reveal her staring at him, perplexed. “Yes, oh wolfy one?”
“Why did you disappear?”
He chuckled. “Can’t a man have his secrets?”
“No. Not here. Not as abruptly as that.”
He stepped forward into her personal space. Behind him, the wood creaked closed—not so subtly shutting out further questions.
“Don’t we have things to do, Blondie? Paperwork to sort through, cupcakes to eat, people’s lives to destroy?”
“Was about to ask you the same thing,” Ava replied dryly. “Let’s go. We’re already behind thanks to your disappearing act.”
When his hand gently caught ahold of her shoulder, Ava’s entire body tensed in an instinctual response. Weightless for all of a second, they reappeared in her office as soon as the teleport completed.
Pivoting to chastise him, Ava’s wolf instantly leapt into her eyes, and a whine rumbled in her chest. “Why are you bleeding?”
“What?”
“Your nose.” Pointing to his face, Ava shook her head and rounded the desk to pluck a tissue from her desktop. “Here.”
Taking it without a thank you, Remmus dabbed at the staunched flow before chucking it into the waste bin near her door.
“Must be the silver.” He shrugged. “You mind if I borrow your laptop? I want to start building the case against Hannah.”
“Have at it. If the silver is still giving you trouble, shouldn’t you—”
“While we were there,” Remmus interrupted her, uninterested in talking about the state of his health, “I installed a loophole in their closed system. A back door, if you will. It allows me to tap into their tech from offsite.”
“That’s handy. And also a little disconcerting.”
“It’s untraceable, I promise. I’ll upload everything else they log into the cloud. Now, all we have to do is work on our proposal to Uncle Sam, and I can do most of that up here.” Two fingers tapped on his temple.
She rolled her chair over toward his. “How does it work?”
“Trade secrets, Ava—but since this is your computer, I’ll give you a temporary pass.” He pointed to an icon on the screen. “I’ve hidden it in this folder—”
“The one oh-so-covertly named ‘Espionage and Secret Documents?’”
“No one will guess,” he chuckled. “Anyway, from here, you can remote into her desktop without her knowledge—even in her phone if you wanted to, since it’s connected. All very hocus-pocus.”
“And they can’t track it back to us?”
“It’d be easier to nail Jello to a tree. Anyway, let’s get to this paperwork you’ve teased me about?”
She grunted. “All the fun’s right here!”
It was an hour and a half later before something worthwhile surfaced. A single employee name hadn’t been redacted, lost in a jumble of handwritten notes at the end of a document. Fortunately, the error would prove beneficial to their cause.
Remmus jumped at the chance to prove his worth once more. With a hand to Ava’s computer, his eyes shuttered closed. He dove into the technology, and a prickle of static electricity hummed around him.
Beside him, Ava’s small gasp made it plain that she was fascinated to see a million pieces of information opening and closing in a battery of light.
Remmus remained absolutely still, but the speed at which he moved through the tech increased as he grew prideful. Within twenty seconds, his eyes had opened, and a smile drew over his mouth.
“Bingo, Blondie. Be my date?”
Chapter Thirteen
