Page 106 of Keeping Kasey
“Whatever it takes,” I tell him. “Have Ford send out an alert at the base to seize Kasey immediately and have him use the new security system to shut the entire base down. I want a digital blackout.”
James nods, and his grim expression stays in place as he runs back to Ford’s room.
I barely remember the drive to the base.
All I can do is replay every conversation Kasey and I have ever had.
Was it all a lie?
I’m minutes from the base when my phone rings.
“What?”
“It’s gone,” James says in a tone devoid of emotion.
“What’s gone?”
“Ford can monitor his computer at the base. Kasey wasinthe program, Logan. She deleted everything as he cut the power.”
No.No.
At least, as a liar, I could understand what Kasey did. I could assume she didn’t know what she was doing three years ago. I could move past this.
But she just made her loyalties clear.
And I’ve already decided the fate of those who aligned with Mason.
“I’ll deal with it,” I say in a voice I don’t recognize, and hang up.
Kasey made the program that my brother used to communicate with every traitor in the family.
She deleted all the evidence that would’ve caught those traitors.
She took this job to clean up her mess.
She made me think everything we had was real.
She’s been playing me all along.
I pull into the garage in record time, and the car is barely in park before I’m running to Ford’s office.
When my phone rings again, I’m ready to rip James a new one, but it isn’t his name that flashes on the screen.
My chest heaving, sweat rolling down my face, and fury simmering over every inch of my body, I answer her call.
“I can explain,” she says.
I loathe myself for relishing her voice, low and shaky as it is.
“Where are you?”
“You have to let me explain, Logan.”
“You have to tell mewhere you are.”
“Only if you promise to listen to me,” she pleads, desperation dripping from each word.
“You have exactly five seconds to tell me where you are before I order my soldiers to shoot on sight.”
