He swam in the pool, the feeling of warm spring on his skin. Still even that refused to cheer him. He went to sleep that night thinking only of Zoë. ...Remembering their night he came faster than he ever had on his own. He slept missing the feeling of her body beside his.Sunday Mike woke late, finding the clock reading ten. He yawned, stretching and climbing from his bed. He showered, dressed and prepared to go out for a day in the parks when the doorbell rang. When Mike opened the door he felt. Even I knew that SyncComp had been almost on hold for the past few months, but the important decisions had been made - the ones that kept the company going and the money flowing, and I had been the one making them."If I decide to do this," I spoke, thinking aloud, "I could be putting at risk everything you've worked for with these companies. SyncComp is the cornerstone of your strategy, and if I fail at SyncComp, the whole thing will fall apart." But don't you see, Gary?" Patricia said as she. Number Two's parked near Pepper, who's strutting her stuff on the strip where the guy picked up his other victims. Me, I'm the surveillance, set up in an empty storefront halfway between the strip and the motel where she's supposed to take him. We got a bug in her purse -- with those clothes, where could we hide one on her? -- and three cameras plus bugs in the motel room.Perfect set-up, right? So why did it go wrong? Hey, it wasn't my idea to send Pepper out without an earpiece, so we couldn't. I had a major girl problem back home, to the point Dad decided to move. Dad is a lawyer, a pretty good one too. As you can imagine he has a little bit of an unfair advantage. He knows how far to push as to not give away his secret. He has never lost a case in seventeen years. His boss had a good friend who ran a law firm in Charleston, South Carolina. After a call and an interview Dad got the job with ease and here we are in this small town called Goose Creek, funny name right. Anyway, the.