The Omega Team: Cyber Tracked: The Cobra Project (Kindle Worlds Novella) (IATO Series Book 4) by Eliza March Page B

he released her, he looked straight at Reinhardt and glared. Mosel’s eyebrows almost hit his hairline, silently saying, “So that’s the way it is.”
    Cade nodded once to him and he nodded once back.
    “If you’ve finished marking your territory, Cade, I have work to do.” Rowan smiled before she marched off in the direction of her office.
    “I-I’m not—” he stammered then shut up until she was out of earshot. For a split second Cade almost, just almost felt ridiculous, but her taste lingered on his lips and Mosel’s stupid shit-eating grin made him feel better.
    “So you like the girl, huh?”
    “What’s not to like? She’s rich and smart and beautiful.” …and man how she made him feel when she took him in her mouth… He was not letting his mind go there.
    “You want to go over your plans for her project?” Mosel could be included on an as need to know basis.
    “We are looking to develop it using the defense cypher to protect the satellite and military systems…for now.”
    “What do you know about it?”
    “Really, only what Emily has told me.”
    Mosel’s eyes went flat at the mention of Cade’s sister-in-laws’s name.
    “How is Emily? And the children?”
    “Mosel…” The big man just stared at Cade. “She’s fine, man. They’re all fine. Happy.” Silence, almost to the awkward point, filled the dead air. “She was always his, you know?” Cade added. “She loved him as long as I’ve know her. Hell, she was maybe five or six. It was like they’d been created for each other but Jason would never admit it.”
    Mosel ran his hand over his short hair and kept shaking his head. “I knew. I don’t know why I let myself think it could be otherwise. Rowan reminds me of her in a way.”
    At the mention of Rowan’s name, both of the men became suddenly aware that they’d dropped their guard at the same time.
    “I don’t like her being on that side of the building alone,” Cade said.
    Mosel shifted to the console. “Neither do I, but I took precautions.”
    “If she won’t let us in…” Cade followed him. “We can wait outside her door? Right?”
    “Certainly.” Reinhardt punched in a few buttons on the console. “Fuck! She’s gone.”
    “What?” Cade slammed into the mountain of a man as he rose from the console.
    “The tracker. I placed one on her and it isn’t picking her up inside the building.”
    “Look outside.” Cade scrambled to the control board and zipped through the monitors.
    “There…there’s the signal. She is heading out to…” Mosel peered closer to the screen. “I think Snake has a contact in that part of town.” Mosel shoved the tracking device into Cade’s hand. “Take this and check her computer for any incoming messages.”
    “You think I can hack her password that fast?”
    “No.” He looked at Cade as if he had four heads. “It’s eWsQUE_1^!”
    “Really? She told you her password?”
    “Of course. We help each other out.”
    “I’m sleeping with her and he has her password. What the fuck!” Cade tapped the password in cursing under his breath. Later he and Rowan were going to have a little talk about trust and misplaced loyalties.
    Mosel was pulling out all kinds of weapons from his bag of tricks, while Cade searched the last few minutes of Rowan’s messages.
    “Shit, she got a message from Ahmet.” Cade’s blood drained from his head and his fingers stopped dead on the keyboard. “Mosel, he told her you’re with IATO. She knows we were playing her, lying to her.”
    “What difference does it make? She’s known all along you aren’t being completely honest with her.”
    “Yes, there’s that too, but at first IATO wanted to stop her—”
    Mosel looked stunned. “As in a kill order?”
    “Yes. When Jason refused, I talked them into buying the technology, helping her develop it, to use to our advantage. Ahmet told her about the assassination order from IATO. ‘Stop COBRA or her at all costs.’ doesn’t sound