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Kyenna gave me a quick kiss and got up to head back in the house.

“Talk to me,” I answered the phone.

“I found movement on one of Nikki’s accounts.”

I turned to make sure no one was within earshot of this conversation.

“What kind?”

“It was something from cloud storage. It was an encrypted file sent.”

“Can you see where it was sent? Fuck! I need you workin’ harder.”

“I’m trying to trace it. The shit was sent to an account that is just as protected.”

“Was anything downloaded?”

“Not yet. I’m going to keep digging to see where the file went. Once it’s opened or downloaded, I’ll be able to see then.”

“Aye, man, work faster.”

CHAPTER 40

KYENNA

Dinner had gone better than I expected. I spent years around this family, so I was familiar with everyone’s temperaments. I expected my mother-in-law to be the one with the most to say. She was a mother first, and I respected everything she had to say. The hardest part was over. I pulled into my gate and headed into the house. I had planned on going straight to work from his house in the morning. I grabbed a bag from my closet and grabbed my skincare, soaps, body oils, and grabbed a pantsuit to wear to work. My phone chimed while I was zipping the bag up over my suit. When I was off, I made sure to have email notifications off on my work email. If it was an emergency, they knew to call me. It was almost ten at night, yet I still opened the email. It was from Nicole.

“Nicole?”

The email didn’t come with any long message. There was one line: If something happens to me, you need to see this.

Underneath it was a link to an encrypted file. I stood there holding my phone for a second. How the fuck was she sending me an email? She had to set this shit up before she died. My first instinct was to open it right there. I clicked the link and the download started, but the file was too big for my phone storage. My curiosity was killing me, so I was about to head down to grab my laptop, but Shameek started calling.

“Hello?”

“Where you at? You said you was comin’ back.”

“I’m just grabbing everything I need.”

“You’ve been grabbin’ stuff for thirty minutes.”

“I got distracted. My bad.”

“With what?”

“Nothing. I was trying to figure out what I wanted to wear tomorrow.”

“Ky, throw some shit in a bag and come on. I’m already in bed.”

“Give me ten minutes.”

“Aight, I’m timing you.”

“Bye, Meek.”

“Love you,” he said.

I ended the call without saying anything. I had ten minutes to get the file downloaded before I walked out of the house. Rushing, I opened my laptop and logged into my work email to download the file. My fingers tapped on the table as I watched the numbers climb. I didn’t want to leave until it was fully downloaded. When it hit a hundred percent, I ran back upstairs to grab my things. Whatever it was, would be there tomorrow. I had spent so much time chasing down Rah’s murderer that I just wanted to take a break from it. Tonight, I wanted to go lay beside the man I loved.