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“Quite an eot” He nodded at the work area, he and Vivek not having had much of a chance to talk yesterday when he dropped off the confiscated cell phone
“I still miss my Guild station,” Vivek adround up, ordered every single piece myself, customized the software”
“I built a house once,” Veno “I’m a bad carpenter, but I built that house And I still hed in it, shared their bounty of rice and wild greens, lentils and handmade sweets
Vivek nodded, the movee of s we build ourselves, theythe sensor that protruded beside his cheek, his wheelchair also designed to his specifications “Sorry,” he said afterward “I spotted a piece of inforht be interested in”
Venolow in the otherto Dmitri, Vivek Kapur had a crush on Raphael’s spymaster Not a sexual crush The crush of a ers in every possible information pie—and Jason was the best at that there was “Did you have a chance to dig into the e-mail address associated with the bounty?”
“Only for the past half hour—healers forced me offline for the rest of yesterday afternoon, and this ate since you asked an to work again “They call it physical therapy and muscle recovery I call it sadism”
Venoine the pain Vivek had to bear every session “Does it loves?” He assu the sessions
“We tried,” the other man responded with a scowl, “but then they can’t feel the movement of my muscles as they need to So instead I swear like a hunter, and the therapists wear earplugs” The last words were absent, Vivek’s focus on his work
Venoe as soon as you have anything”
“No Wait” The hunter’s eyes moved with rapid speed and Veno software that read his eye movements, at the same time that he typed “I’ve hacked the e-mail account It’s received four e- the confiscated phone One is froed He e- the job”
“Professional of him”
“He’s a regular CEO” Vivek’s tone was bone-dry “The other three e-mails are from different parties who purport to have successfully snatched Holly”
He pulled up those three e-e screen in front of him “Photos are doctored”
Tere bad, but the third“That one would foolto the picture of a terrified wo-tied on a concrete floor Holly’s eyes stared out of the screen
Sory uncurled inside him
“It’s a very clever piece of photo manipulation” Vivek continued to work “That’s all there is right now No money transfers to follow because, I assueries—or doesn’t knohich e-mail to believe”
He used a second screen to bring up the photo Venom had taken, of Holly sluht be why you didn’t get a response to your h I’m more inclined to believe your surveillance theory Mike and his ot a better track record than any of these others—reason enough for the buyer to keep a hopeful eye on them”
Venoenuine, had only been sent fifteen hours earlier After Mike and his crew struck out—and after Veno the bank accounts associated with the bounty hunter who sent that final e-mail?”
Nodding, Vivek said, “No le account appeared on the screen that had originally held Veno, in case he’s sh to have hidden accounts”
“If this is what you can dig up in a half hour,” Veno you’ll have his entire life in sixty minutes”