Wife by Day, Boss by Night by Thalia Quillspeak

Chapter 78

“Of course I have,” the other party said with a sly grin, “but…”

Brian’s eyes narrowed with irritation at the words.

The guy was notoriously shady, never playing by the rules. It seemed he was planning to exploit FireWing’s reputation to gouge Brian for a hefty sum.

But Brian didn’t play that game. He didn’t like anyone strong–arming him.

Without letting the man finish, Brian reached out and pressed the ground floor button on the elevator.

As the door on the ground floor reopened, Brian didn’t wait for the man’s pleas, stepping out briskly. He had no taste for these tiresome verbal chess matches. Anyone who had dealt with him knew that.

“Mr. Howard! Look at this!” Reid called out just as Brian approached the revolving doors. handing over his phone.

Frowning, Brian stared at the blinking red dot on Reid’s screen.

had been missing for a full day and night,

to the tracker, she was then mere blocks away

was to a city hundreds of miles away, yet here she was,

level of caution and counter–surveillance was odd.

Brian had taken advantage of her sleeping to implant a stealth tracking bug in her phone. Once her phone was on, he could pinpoint her exact location. As Brian took the phone,

later, a series of muffled, deafening explosions erupted from below them.

from her phone, wiped down her equipment to clear any fingerprints, and stood up. Casually,

curb, ten minutes had

of curiosity as Natalie climbed back into the car

with a smile, showing him a Tetris handheld game. “Nina has been hounding me

a charging cable from her bag to juice up her phone, planning to download some classic pixelated

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blared from the speakers when her

best hackers get hit sometimes, Got a virus on your phone you didn’t notice?”

scrolled through the background processes on