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The next envelope wasn’t as thick, and also being from OPS, it had my heart racing as I opened it.
This note was more complex than the last. I shivered as I read it, and re-read it.
Follow your instructions to the letter and don’t end up like Brooks.
Log into the email account Griffin1897 on webhost.ua and follow the instructions in the message in the drafts folder. Password:rememberBrooks.
Check the drafts folder every day for further instructions. When you have read a message put an X in the From line.
Remember Brooks.
How could I forget Melinda? I photographed the message with my phone.
“You’re in early.” It was Kirby behind me.
I quickly slipped the note back in its envelope and turned. “You’re the second one to tell me that.”
She checked her watch. “It’s true.”
I shrugged.
“Our horoscope says it’s not a good time to change routines.” She’d learned shortly after I started here that we had the same sign. “Want to get coffee?”
Keeping to a routine was a normal state for me. “Sure.” I tied the envelope shut before I left to follow Kirby for my cup of tea.
“You look tired.”
“Maybe a little.”
She put her cup under the machine and punched in her choice. “How’d the date go?”
I smiled and felt heat rising in my cheeks.
“Come on. That well, huh?”
I had to say something at this point. I shrugged. “A guy I knew in California.”
“That smile of yours says more than that.”
I added hot water to my cup. “I like him. But, my brothers wouldn’t approve.”
“Do they ever?”
I snorted. She had my brothers pegged. “No, not my brothers. But, he works at State, so he must have passed a background check.”
She poked around a little more about Adam, but I managed to keep my answers simple and short, except I did tell her his name.
The note was still waiting for me when we got back from our trek to the coffee room. With nobody walking by, I texted my picture of the note with a message to Adam.
ME: New note arrived - what do I do?
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Adam
Sittingat my desk at the field office, I paused the dreaded bank video and read the text from Kelly slowly. When I’d finished, I held up my phone. “Neil, we got another communication from the Ghost.”
“Who’s the Ghost?”
