Page 72 of The Dance
Once I got down to the IT department, I made my way to Brian’s office. I was taking a risk trusting him because it was Brody who’d hired him. When I’d approached Brian with the NDA, telling him it would be only between us, he had to have known it had something to do with Brody, but he had signed it without question.
“All right, what do you have?” I shut the door behind me and walked to his desk so I could see his computer monitor.
He pulled up what he had on his computer as I looked over his shoulder. “I checked the servers and found nothing, but you know as well as I do that Brody would cover his tracks. He knows how to log onto the servers and delete whatever needs to be deleted.”
“I was afraid of that.” I was hoping Brody hadn’t deleted the profiles he’d created from the servers and backup servers, but Brody, of course, wasn’t stupid.
“So, that being said, the only way for us to track him would be to set up a backup server he doesn’t know about.”
“I’m listening,” I urged.
“To do that, all of our client’s data would need to go to that server, not only Brody’s profiles, since we wouldn’t know which ones are his.”
“Okay?”
Brian turned slightly to look up at me, a smile on his face. “There was already an update being pushed out to fix some performance issues, but I made it so that a personhasto do the update to continue using the app, so we’ll know if Brody is creating profiles.”
“Will we? How? He’s using fake names.”
“Right, but I’m working on a program that will go through each server and find out which profiles are on one and not the other. Since Brody doesn’t know about the new one, his profiles should pop up as being missing from our main server.”
I rubbed my hands down my face, blowing out a breath. “I was really hoping to find out how many women he’s been attacking. If word gets out that our VP is raping our sugar babies and we’re just letting it happen, we’re fucked.”
“I know, but this is all I could come up with.”
I grasped his shoulder. “I understand and thank you. Once you have the program coded and running, let me know if you find anything.”
“Will do.”
* * *
The entire timeI ran on the treadmill at the gym, I thought about what I needed to do. Each day was a risk, with Brody possibly out on a date and no one knowing. I needed to talk to my attorney, and I would probably need to go to the police to start an investigation. I couldn’t sit back and wait for a victim to come forward with proof. I needed to get ahead of it, or I would have an even bigger nightmare on my hands.
After I left the gym, I called my personal attorney, who was also a friend of mine, and told him I was stopping by and that it was urgent. I knew he would know who to contact, even though he didn’t specialize in criminal law. There was no way I could contact the company’s attorney because of a conflict of interest, so my best bet was my lawyer friend, who did family law.
When I finished explaining everything to him, he called the police, and we reported it. There wasn’t anything they could do except make a report, but I was to give them all the info I had and let them know what Brian found once something happened.
It could take a day.
It could take a week.
It could take a month, but Brody was going down.
24
Stacey
“Hey, sunshine. What’s up?”
“I’m going on tour!” I shouted as I wandered around my living room, unable to sit down after I got the call.
“You got the job?” Eddie asked.
“I did!” My smile was spread across my face so wide it hurt, but I couldn’t help it.
“That’s amazing.”
I paused for a moment and then asked, “Can I come and thank you in person?”
