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“Chloe” Brooke didn’t say irl snapped intome to question whether or not she typically carried evidence bags around in her sports bra

“I’m on it,” Chloe said “I’ll have the sample analyzed by lunchtirin “Guess our stunting technique is going to have to wait”

“Our stunting technique is already flawless,” Brooke said “Right noe have other priorities”

Sure, I thought I got black our cradles, but the moment it turned out that I had a tracker chip in my shoulder, she adured

Everyone else was so concentrated on the chip that I was the only one who noticed when the data on the screen in front of us changed A second, autoht’s father was in Bayport, protecting a senator as scheduled to speak at four that afternoon

Without a word, Chloe set about exa the chip fromfor evidence that Amelia had led me astray

Then one by one, they reported back, confir Amelia had told me

I took in the information and came to my own conclusion “Game on”

CHAPTER 30

Code Word: Issues

I’d finally talked the others into stepping up and accepting A I’d said could dissuade Brooke froet authorization to do so As she pointed out, Amelia had said that we couldn’t tell our superiors what she’d told us, or ere doing She never said we couldn’t make up a reason e needed to be reinstated on the case

“Hi…Mo” Brooke paused, and walked away fro”

I could hear the voice from the other end of the phone, but couldn’t make out the words Based on whatever Mrs Camden said, Brooke dropped the cheer-tone in her voice and switched over to operative mode without so much as a bat of her eyelashes “We’ve reanalyzed all of the data we collected during the course of this case, and we have reason to believe that so an eye on—”

This time, the voice from the other end was louder, and I wondered what exactly it was that finally got a verbal rise out of Brooke’s mother, despite her I’m-just-a-sweet-PTA-mom façade

“We think there may be more to this weapon than previously realized, and that it would behoove us to have as much surveillance on the TCIs as possible until…”

Brooke frowned as she listened to the other end “What do I want you to do? I want you to get us back on this, or short of that, to tell your bosses that we could be looking at so major here”

Hearing Brooke talk to her nificantly She’d just lain down and taken it the day before At least now she was arguing

“Yes, I’ are cast tomorrow, Moth-er” Brooke broke the last word down into two syllables “But—”

More talking from the other end of the line

“What’s wrong with my hair?” Brooke asked plaintively Then she let out a breath “What about the extra security?” she asked “Can you at least…no, I’ to hire a bunch of freshman boys to pretend to be pirates I don’t care how effective you think that would be Are you even listening to me?”