Page 34 of Resting Grump Face
“But he only uses it for evil,” I add, and am promptly ignored by everyone else in the car.
“Is he single?” Paige continues.
“Pretty sure,” Earnest says while staring at his screen and whatever private information he has already found about Mr. Handsome With A Nice Butt Who Is Exceptionally Rich And Most Likely Single.
“If he’s single, it’s because he scares everyone away with his off-putting personality,” I say.
“Isn’t that why you’re single too?” Earnest betrays me without thinking about it twice.
The conversation stops, and it’s quiet for a second before all four of them break out in laughter. I take a deep breath.
This is why I should have worked alone.
We spend the next couple of hours sifting through the information that our computer virus thingy has gotten us. We look through his (extremely boring) emails, his contacts, and his calendar to see if he has met or is going to meet any potentially shifty business partners, but we come up woefully short. His meetings probably do include shifty people, but all of them seem to run some legitimate company or another. Until we find one appointment that just says: Brotherhood.
“That’s not what I think it is, is it?” Earnest’s head flinches back slightly.
“Noooo,” I shake my head, “it can’t be. I mean, I could see him being an alien wearing a human meat sack to play with us before assimilation, but I don’t see him being part of a white supremacy group.”
“Only one way to find out,” Robyn replies and slides open the door next to us. She turns around, gives me a wink and shuts it in my face before I can even react.
“Does she have to keep doing this?” I ask by now more rhetorically than anything else.
Paige and Guy just shrug their shoulders while the Chairman uses his chance to snuggle up in the leftover heat on Robyn’s seat.
All four of us watch as she makes a beeline towards The Cloud Tickler. For a second, I hope she’s just going there to use the bathroom, but I know better. “Earnest can you?—”
“Sure can,” he says and starts clicking and typing away on his keyboard. A minute later, he has pulled up the stream of the security camera inside the building. “They should really teach their CEO about basic cyber security.”
Then he toggles between a few cameras until we finally find Robyn. She is past security already and entering the elevators. When we find her in another camera, she has gotten off the elevator. We watch her breeze past a bunch of receptionists and employees until she reaches a large double door that she throws open without hesitation. Sure enough, she made it into Ryker Grayson’s office in less than ten minutes.
“They should teach him about general security as well, it seems,” Earnest remarks and shifts in his seat, eager to see what happens next.
The two of us stare at the screen, while Paige and Guy wait for updates.
“They’re talking,” I explain, wondering what she could be telling him.
“Now they’re walking,” Earnest adds a little later.
They get on the elevator again and when they get off, we lose the right feed. It takes Earnest a second to find them again downin the parking lot where Ryker holds the door to his limousine for our secret agent.
“Start the car,” I tell Guy, who nods, puts his pair of aviator sunglasses back on and buckles in.
All four of us watch the limousine pull out of an underground parking garage, then Guy shifts into drive and follows the car.
“Check his calendar,” I tell Earnest. “What is his next appointment?”
“Lunch.”
“Oh.” Guy lets his sunglasses slide down the bridge of his nose a little and looks at me in the rearview mirror. “Today’s meatloaf day, Sienna!”
“Mashed potatoes?” Earnest’s shoulder bumps into mine so he, too, can see Guy.
“Does the pope wear a funny hat?”
“I am not sure. We might have different definitions of what’s funny.”
“Alright, does Sienna have a thing for that billionaire guy?”
