Chapter 184

He had no concept of time passing until he heard the front door open a bit later and looked up to find Zy.

Trees rose from his chair. “Hey.”

“Jesus…” His friend looked him up and down. “You’re still wearing yesterday’s clothes. Did you even go home last night?”

“No.”

Zy grabbed some coffee, then sauntered back to his desk. “So…did you find anything? At all?”

Trees shook his head, then filled Zy in on all the ways he’d taken apart the info on the former operatives’ computers.

“Did you check the network, too?”

“Only enough to ensure that we haven’t been breached and don’t have any detectable trojans or malware. But I haven’t done any sort of deep dive through internal communications. I ran out of time.” He sighed. “And now I’m out of steam, so I’m going to grab a few hours of sleep, and I’ll be back to finish up. Hunter knows. He told me he’s got a new assignment for me.”

“Do you need me to take you home?”

“Nah. I’m good.” He waved