A Different Divergent: Everyday Love

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Chapter 31

I leave my office, suspicious of Hector once again. Do I tell the others what I think I just saw or keep it to myself? Maybe I'll have Nathan pull the footage from my office and see if I actually saw him smirk behind my back. Instead of returning to the conference room, I take a detour to the control room.

"Nathan, can I talk to you?" I ask as I come up behind him.

"Talk away, Tris," he says, a big smile on his face, obviously happy to see me. I look around and instantly get uncomfortable. Too many eyes are focused on us.

"In private," I quietly say. He follows me into Zeke's office, which should only be classified as a closet.

"What can I do for you?"

"I need to look at the footage from my office from 5-10 minutes ago," I say.

"Okay," he says. He sits down on Zeke's rolling computer chair and types into the keyboard. One of the screens goes black then my office feed flickers to life. Hector is hunched over my desk diligently working on his statement. Thank goodness. Nathan runs the live feed backwards until I'm standing before Hector.

"Stop!" He hits another button and the footage moves forward once again. "Can you zoom in on his face for me?" He types a command and Hector and I enlarge to fill the screen. I concentrate on his face as he seems to diligently listen to my instructions. It's odd to relive my near distant past. Then there it is, a small smirk as I turn away from him. "Can you play it again?"

"Sure. What are you looking for?"

"I'm not sure to tell you the truth," I say. "Watch his face as I start to turn toward the door. Tell me what you see." I watch the feed once again, closely studying Hector's face over Nathan's shoulder.

"If you ask me he's leering at you," he says.

"My thoughts exactly," I sigh. "Can you put this on a jump drive for me?"

"Certainly," he says. He copies the footage and hands it to me.

"I need you to do something else for me," I say. "I really need you to keep this between us for now." His look turns suspicious. "Obviously, I wasn't meant to know about that look Hector gave me. He thought I'd already turned away from him. In the moment, I wasn't even sure I saw what I thought I saw. And I have absolutely no idea what that look means so please don't say anything."

"All right, Tris," he says.

"Is there a way to delete the fact that I had you look into this and copy it for me?"

"Yeah," he says. "Although if one of the programmers go looking, they could retrieve it."

"Delete it please," I say. "And thanks again. I appreciate your help. I need to get back to Four before he misses me."

"You're welcome," he says. I leave him in Zeke's office then head to the conference room but find it empty. Hhm. Tobias must be in his office. I double back to the Pire. I knock on his door then walk on in.

"There you are," he says. I contemplate telling him what I saw, weighing the pros and cons then remember how irritated I would get when he hid things from me even when he thought he was doing the right thing. "You have something to tell me?"

"You know me so well," I say, shaking my head. Why did I even consider not telling him? I round his desk and lean against the edge facing him.

"How do you think the meeting with Hector went?" I ask.

"I think it went well," he says, looking up at me suspiciously. "Why? Do you know something I don't know?"

"Honestly? I'm not sure," I say. "I do have something to show you though." I dig the jump drive out of my pocket and plug it into an empty port on his computer. I open the file and say, "Watch this." He leans forward and concentrates on the monitor.