Chapter 225

“Long story short?” Zy began. “Our mole is Tessa’s ex-boyfriend. Here’s our timeline. Last January, we think Aspen planted spyware on Tessa’s laptop since she was using the machine while Tessa was on maternity leave.”

Trees scowled. “How is that possible? She could barely find the button to turn the machine on?”

“The way I heard it, she wasn’t good for much but answering phones,” Joaquin drawled.

“It must have been an act.” Zy leaned in. “At the time, Colonel Edgington hired Aspen to temp after Tessa’s ex, Cash, recommended her.”

“Yeah,” Hunter confirmed. “I don’t think Dad knew anyone else.”

“That’s how the mission last March, the one in which I was injured, went south,” Zy explained. “Tessa returned a couple of weeks after that.”

“I reformatted her computer then, which wiped out whatever spyware Aspen put on it,” Trees added.

“Exactly. And every other mission went off without a hitch until August twentieth, when One-Mile was captured in Ac