Codes and Lies (BWWM)

The Dwelling

After a silent drive, the SUV pulled up to the front of my hotel.
"Ten minutes. We will meet you at the loading dock south side of building." Said Serge as one of the bodyguards opened my door to let me out.

"Ten minutes!?" I replied.

These guys obviously weren't accustomed to traveling with women.

"Fifteen ," replied Serge, "but not second longer. We need to leave soon as possible to avoid detection."

No wonder DuMonte was so elusive.

"I will send Jorge up with you to assist you with your bags." Said Mr. DuMonte as he gestured towards the bodyguard who opened my door.

Before I could refute, Jorge closed the door of the vehicle, and it sped off. Once we were in front of my door. I asked Jorge to wait in the hallway in order to maintain a bit of privacy, but in reality I didn't want him catching a glimpse of my extra passports, international currency or my 9MM. Fortunately I never fully unpacked so I only had a few things to handle like my toiletries.

When I entered the room I grabbed my burner cell walked into the restroom turned on the fan and dialed June.

"Hey it's me," I started when he picked up, " I'm sorry I couldn't contact you I.."

"We know, we have people in the hospital." June cut me off. " Glad you're doing better though."

"So do you know that Canaan DuMonte has insisted that I temporarily move to his house to recover slash work on his building?"

"What!? That amazing!"

"It is?" I said confused.

"Don't you see? This is the closest the CIA has ever gotten to DuMonte. This is actually perfect. While you were gone I was able to hack into the system at Crayton Tech. But it appears that there is another off site location that houses the company's core interface on a remote server. One of the reasons it's so hard to break into. I have a theory that what we need to know about Naegleria is housed in that same remote server."

"And you think it's at his estate." I said finally starting to piece things together.

"My assumption is that there's some sort of vault containing the main frame of that server. If we could somehow gain access inside, we can hack in to the main frame and find Naegleria."

A hard knock came at the door.

"Ok I will be sure to contact you as soon as I can. I have to go."

"And Kota, Please don't die." June said before hanging up the phone.

I knew he was half joking, but the gravity of his words reminded me that this wasn't a vacation. And although I was getting closer to completing the objective, I was also closer to the possibility of being found out.

Another knock came. I quickly packed my toiletries into my travel case, set it on the bed and went to the door.

"Yes?" I asked through the door.

"It is Jorge, we must go soon. I'm ready to take your bags down."

"Ok give me a second to finish changing." I said trying to buy myself some more time. I unlocked the room safe and took out my passports and money. I folded them in my black overcoat and placed it at the bottom of my suitcase. I placed the small black case containing my gun and holster beside it, and placed all my other clothes on top and zipped it close. I looked down and remembered I still had to actually change my clothes. I removed the maroon dress I had on from the day before and quickly changed my undergarments. I placed the dirty clothes into a plastic bag and put them into the front compartment of my suitcase. I threw on a tan sweater dress my knee high brown boots and quickly grabbed my camel colored trench coat.