His Secret Request: Billionaire Secrets - Book Three Read Free

relationship to women thing?"
    "Oh shit."
    "What is it?"
    "I'm watching CNN. This guy Patterson has a picture of you."
    "Fuck. God damn it."
    "How the hell did he get that?"
    "How should I know? Maybe I've been getting sloppy or maybe he had some technology already that passed my sweep when we met. Maybe the guy just isn't as dumb as he looks."
    "Obviously not."
    "Is it a clear shot of my face?"
    "Clear as day."
    "God damn it."
    "You better stay low baby. This doesn’t look good. If your old employers sees this--"
    "Shut up. Not another word. I've got to go because it looks like they already have."
    Suzy froze. Her crazy long distance, no name, covert relationship to her old friend was a lifeline to her. She was the oldest friend she had and the loss of her as collateral damage to that evil crime dynasty had hit her hard. She desperately wanted to call her friend by her old name but didn't dare.
    "Stay on the line. Don’t hang up."
    "I've got to go. Someone's following me. This isn’t safe for you anymore."
    "It never was. Don't hang up. Tell me where you are."
    "No way. Come on, I don’t know how much longer I've got. What else do you know about Hargrave."
    "It's not important."
    "Just tell me for Christ's sake."
    "Okay, it's about his women. He's choosy. Very choosy. But he always goes for geeks, engineering types, high IQ. Always slim and good-looking but always techies."
    "I'll be damned."
    "He has a thing for girls like…"
    "Girls like you." They both said at the same time.
    "Ah, ah. Girls like you. Suzy said. You're the hot one."
    Suzy glanced in her rear view and saw the car behind her looming closer than ever.
    "Cut it out Suzy… shit, I've got to hang up. I need to take care of this right now."
    "Wait--"
    The line went dead.
    "Fuck." Suzy hissed and immediately dialed her friend back but it went straight to voicemail. She felt a wave of panic begin to take hold of her and took a deep breath to try and clear her thoughts. This was all happening too fast. Nadia's face had only been on the news a couple of hours ago and already she was being chased by Boyevik's men?
    It didn't add up.             
    "What am I gonna do?" She whispered, momentarily paralyzed by indecision. Nadia was her best friend, her oldest friend, maybe even the only true friend that she had left since the world of ethical hacking had swallowed her into a twilight of half relationships and paranoia. She checked her computer screen to make sure that her connection to the Hargrave Robotics servers had been securely closed and saw a warning flag. They had seen her, she was being traced.
    "Shit."
    She shut down the connection immediately and initiated a scramble procedure to cover her tracks on the session hijack protocol she had used to gain access to their systems. There was still a chance she could be located but it was remote. She didn't have time to worry about that now though.
    Nadia was in trouble and she needed to get to her somehow. She only had an approximate idea of where her friend was. Loyalty to her friend meant that she had never conducted a trace on her whereabouts. If she had that kind of information and it became compromised then she would be responsible for the consequences if anyone gained access to her computer.
    She ran to the bedroom to find  her emergency overnight bag and got ready to head over to Maine, Nadia's last known location. What else could she do? She could leave her dog Redmond with that cute neighbor she sometimes met on the beach while running. He had dogs of his own and seemed to love Red so hopefully it wouldn't be a problem. She would set her tracers in action to continue gathering information while she headed to the airport. Once she had her flight to Maine she would log in via her laptop to try and pinpoint where Nadia had been living most recently. At the same time she would keep on calling her.
    This could all come right in the end. This fight wasn't over yet, God damn it, it was only just