Page 27 of Vapor

“That’s just stupid.”

“Not all criminals are masterminds. Some of them couldn’t crawl their way out of a paper bag. It’s sad, really.”

“It’s got a password.” I glare at the blinking cursor.

“Try one, two, three.”

I do and nothing happens.“Didn’t work.”

“Admin?”

“Nope.” I tap the keys, frustrated.

“Try Blue.”

“Good idea.” I brighten for a second before that one also fails.

“Can you just grab the whole thing and bring it to the clubhouse?” he asks.

“Not without someone noticing.”

“I should have gone with you.”

“As my date? I don’t think we could pull that off.”

“Oh, baby. We could be convincing, sugar tits.” Fang can barely finish the sentence before bursting out laughing.

“Listen, fuckwit—”

“Pookie, is that any way to talk to your man?” Fang says, giggling like a damn girl.

“Asshole.” I contain my laughter because this shit is serious.“Any other brilliant ideas?”

“Short of jacking the laptop? No.”

“Couldn’t you have given me a virus to upload to it or something?” I ask, annoyed.

“Even if I did that, we’d still have to be logged in. Broussard’s not like other criminals. He works the books, which requires some level of intelligence. Which also means he’s probably got his tech locked up tight. I could try to trojan horse in with a scammer email, but I doubt he’ll fall for it.”

“So we’re fucked.”

“For now. I’ll go ahead and send an email and see if he’ll open it and click the link. I’ve gotten a lot of guys that way in the past, but people are getting smarter now. If I’d thought it would work, I would have sent one instead of letting you risk your ass by going in there.”

“Try it anyway.”

“You got it.”

“I sent Ice, Tank and Bones back to Black Snake to check the boats.”

“Why? We asked the girls if there were any more of them, but they said they were the only ones.”

“Not more victims. Drugs. Cash.”

“For the exchange. Fuck! I was so worried about getting out of there alive that I didn’t even consider the trade.”

“Even within the same cartel, money exchanges hands for merchandise. The money has to flow in from somewhere. No one’s going to risk international kidnapping charges until they’re sure they’re getting paid. We all missed that link.”

“We didn’t exactly have time to think shit through that night.”

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