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Only a minute passes before Gabe finally turns back tostories about us Then we find bugs in oddamn pub Now this?”

“I’ this to you” I echo his concern, especially considering I don’t think he is the target but rather a pawn to trap the senator “But again, I think we need to not let our eet carried away This isn’t personal The black you and Hadley to do it”

Gabe glowers “The tabloids are printing our personal information, so please tell me how this isn’t personal”

“Of course it seeainst you, and I’ainst Hadley are all linked together, but I’ you they are That much I don’t doubt” I sio to these extre up stuff on our personal lives Yes, me and my friends hold positions of power in San Francisco, but still…it’s odd we’reheadlines This all has to be connected to the senator somehow, and I simply needed to find that link to azine would never have the financial resources to bug your pub with the devices they used Nor would they have the ator to follow Hadley to know she even attended Afterglow”

Gabe’s eyes widen “Do you think she’s still being followed?”

“I haven’t seen anyone tailing her, so no, but I’ht anyone following her, they would quickly regret that decision Because, logical or not, when it comes to Hadley the only eyes I want on her are mine

“So, basically, we still have nothing?” Gabe says, obviously frustrated “We have no idea who bugged my pub We have a blackht involve all of us or it ht not—at this point we only knoe are all pawns in soht?”

He’s not wrong Not on a single point “Well,” I say, trying to put a positive spin on our current situation, “we’ll soon have the name of the hacker and that’s a place to start We haven’t hit a dead end” At least, not yet anyway

“And you believe the hacker is a low?”

“That I’ardless, he will know souy I need to talk to”

Gabe nods in agreement

I consider my next steps before I add, “But first, we need to see if anyone else has received one of those invitations or if Hadley was the only one Then we can go from there” I push away from the door “Is that doable for you?”

“Of course,” Gabe says, then he pauses, obviously choosing his words carefully “What do you know about this guy so far? If you show nize him”

I shake odda full masks One had a half-moon scar on his hand, but that’s all I saw in the video that would identify them”

“Weight? Height?”