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And he felt just as trapped as the high-paid scientists The sooner this assignment was over, the better All he had to do was inject the lead scientist with a nano virus that would piggyback on his connection to the research facility mainframe and copy the information they needed That was it One little injection, and then he was out of there He looked down at his datapad and frowned The injector had been built into it, but he couldn’t re

“How do I get the injector off this thing again?” Hell, he couldn’t even see it All he saas the slim silver lens of a state-of-the-art handheld device

Hunter let out a heavy sigh “Friday, can you show hi Keiko”

“I’ ree appeared in the top right-hand corner of the screen The blonde was frowning at hiue box appeared on the screen “You type in the release command, and the injector will pop out of the datapad Froes, you only have about fifteen seconds to inject it into our target, otherwise it will be useless So don’t release it until you know you’re going to use it” She let out a long-suffering sigh “When you get back to base, I’norance ”

“I know enough for what I need to do” Generally It wasn’t his fault he was a century out of date with the latest tech

“Obviously not, or you’d be doing it” She turned to her husband, who appeared behind her on the screen “Is it too late to swap him out and put so to screw everything up and on’t get the information we need This is too important to let Mace loose on it Millions of people could die if that chip is implanted in their heads”

“Yeah, it’s too late to swap him out,” Striker said “But don’t worry about it none Mace’ll get the job done—he ain’t screwed up a ht it out with him once this is over”

“Fine,” she huffed, “but if we ever have to infiltrate a research facility again, we send in someone who understands how to use a datapad There are days I’m not even sure Mace can walk and talk at the same time”

“Hey,” Mace said “Still here”

“I know,” Friday said “I’m finished with your datapad You can have control back Do you think you canout, or do I need to talk you through that, too?”

“Why did we rescue her again?” Mace said

“She’s great in bed,” Striker joked, earning a slap on the back of his head from his wife before the screen went blank

“Are you sure Keiko is okay?” Mace said into his comm unit “Security isn’t suspicious of her, are they?”

His stoht and unprotected If Co, she would be arrested and interrogated Basically, his tearated

“She’s fine” Hunter sounded bored “She’s where she’s supposed to be, and she hasn’t sent out any calls for help”