Chapter 228

Patty watched as the disconnect occurred. She immediately disengaged the backdoor from her computer and checked for any she may have forgotten about in the past. There were two more for her former professors, and she deleted them. The security features on her computer were at maximum, her antitheft programs were activated and everything else was in order. She forgot one thing. Her father put a GPS locator beacon in her computer, when he cleaned it out of all the spurious software Bruno's men had put in it at the Miami Satellite Facility. It was on when her computer was on, and it was off when her computer was not in use. It also had certain liabilities. Since it was so small, it had to be near an open space to be able to be detected by the three closest satellites in order to triangulate its position. If it was blocked by concrete walls, it was useless.

Steve picked up the phone and told Stephano what had happened. "She does not want to be found, and she does not wan