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I wasn’t going to be able to sit down or walk right, and by the smirk on Stark’s face, he had no sympathy for my current condition

I flipped hi around in the other rooet so back inoveroff the bubbles from the body wash I had slathered all over me, I noticed I had marks fro Marks I’d been too caught up in hierprints in tiny blue bruises on the outside of my breasts and across my hips Red marks frohs White half-ers in so hard, I broke the skin Pink lines along the inside ofinto s and deep withinhiot to him I made him react and I wore the proof of his hu addictive and alluring about that

We both lost control, yet kept each other in check in our oay siether, both physically and e off and wrapping myself up in a tohen the bathroom door opened and Stark walked in with lasses somewhere and had donned a pair of white boxer briefs He looked like he should be selling expensive sports drinks or designer underwear, not tapping on a co on the screen

"Your eed when you were in the shower I wouldn’t have paid any attention to it but it seems to be in soave ure it out" I shook ible His brain never stopped

I took the laptop from him and almost dropped it when I saas sent from Lisbeth Salander I shiftedon Tattoo She’s one of the most famous fictional hackers in all of modern culture This has to be from someone who knoho I a to God it wasn’t a virus or a Trojan Horse that would attach spyware to my computer I would have to run a scan just to be sure, but I needed to see as reaching out to ey fashion

The body of the e but a series of numbers in sets of two Rows of thened and when Stark went and got his own laptop to trace the IP address, neither one of us was surprised when it traced back to a proxy server that bounced the signal around a thousand ti it untraceable He took the coet dressed and told me to meet him in the kitchen Now, I could see those wheels in his head turning and practically hear the gears grinding as he poked at the keyboard and ran his eyes over the numbers It was obviously a code of some kind, but I was at a loss as to what the key was

When I made it to the kitchen, he had both his computer andso across the screen, blinking as they rolled by

"What are you doing?" I propped myself up on a stool next to hiers on the counter He should look ridiculous, a giant beast of aa computer He didn’t He looked smart and sexy He looked co cold about Snowden Stark at theoff every inch of his naked skin and it orithether anywhere It’ll place them in addresses, phone nu hits, it’ll tell us"

I shot him a look out of the corner ofied and frowned at the screen "Depends on if it hits on anything Did you say the sender is a character from a book?"

I nodded "Yeah"

His eyes narrowed and a muscle ticked in his jaw as he cut a look to me "What if it’s a book cipher? The nue nue you need to decipher the e"

I blinked and looked at the numbers It was simple but complicated at the same time "You think?"

"Only one way to find out" He picked up his cell and opened his Kindle app After a few ht the book and downloaded it, he told me to read off the numbers and then rattled off words that corresponded with the nuured out quickly that it alternated between chapter nu the number was, but the second nu for I watched his lips e and ether I liked to think I would have figured it out on ly admit I wouldn’t have seen the connection as quickly as he did