Page 169 of The Valiant Knight
She snorted.
“I mean, I like you naked,” she said. “Who needs a kilt? Make more of that happen, and you’ve got my full attention.”
Yeah, Tony got the picture crystal clear. He’d told the woman to have some fun, and apparently, she took his advice.
Good.
For.
Her.
“What are you going to tell Elizabeth?” he asked. “Because you’re her hacker, and you help her with cases,” he added.
Speaking of that, Finn was curious.
“How good of a hacker are you?” he asked. “Just out of curiosity. If I asked you to find something obscure and locked down, could you do it?”
Oh, well, if there was one thing that Elizabeth’s team liked, it was show-and-tell. Now, she was going to do just that.
She held out her hand, and Tony handed her his tablet without saying a word.
“What do you want to know?” she asked. “You said obscure information. Test me.”
He wasn’t sure she was serious.
“Really?” he asked.
Gabby nodded.
“I’m not offended. I get the whole‘oh, I can search the internet too’look all of the time. It’s more complex than that, so hit me with it.”
He considered it.
Then, he knew what he wanted to see her retrieve.
“My boss did my performance review. It’s on his home computer, and no one’s seen it yet. Can you make it appear?”
Tony laughed.
“That’s a cakewalk. She could have gotten you into the Pentagon, and then made it look like your government was trying to spy.”
Finn stared at them.
“Uh, I don’t want a war. I just want my performance review.”
Gabby winked at him.
Then, she began searching, and pulled a pair of earbuds out of her pocket and plugged them in. She liked to listen to music when she did her dirty work.
He watched as her fingers moved over the tablet, and she was working on extracting that information.
Like Tony said, it was easy, but if he wanted a show, she’d give him one.
Meanwhile, Tony was curious.
“What if it doesn’t work out between the two of you?” he asked, talking to Finn. “She’s risking her career for love.”
He was well aware, and he appreciated that. He’d forever take care of her. No matter what happened, he already knew she was the one.
