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tension.
    “Which car?”
    “Guess,” was Quirk’s only clue.
    Sure enough, the fastest blinking car was a good measure ahead of the other five . As much as Ronnie thrilled at Special Agent Hunt’s arrival, she didn’t want to actually get caught . So with renewed haste, she packed up her laptop and stowed it in her Hello Kitty backpack . Okay, maybe a pink and white sack with a large silver reflector strip wasn’t exactly ninja, but a girl had to be true to herself.
    Lastly, Ronnie pulled on a pair of black leather gloves, careful not to disturb the rows of white beads dotting the palm s . “Switching to keyless - keyboard mode.”
    “We have seriously got to think of a better name for those gloves.”
    Glancing at her watch, she found that Zach had already covered half the distance . Damn , he was a good driver.
    “Yeah, I’ll work on a cool acronym in my spare time,” Ronnie countered as she put on a pair of wraparound sunglasses, wait ing until the metal in the frames attached to a thin cable running up through her turtleneck . The liquid LCD lens was now in communication with her laptop and , therefore , Quirk.
    “Reroute visuals,” she ordered. Instantly , an image of her laptop’s screen bloomed onto her lens . Wireless at its coolest . “Infrared ready?”
    “Please…”
    “Computer buffered image enhancement online ?”
    Quirk had possibly even less patience than Ronnie herself . “Just get your butt in gear , and let me worry about the hardware.”
    More fireworks exploding reminded Ronnie that she only had a narrow window of time before the crowd dispersed . “I’m heading over.”
    “Just do me a favor and actually lose them before you make the rendezvous.”
    Ronnie grinned . Quirk hated this part — the moment of truth . Pitting one’s skills against another ’s . His favorite part of any mission was building all these toys .
    Hers , though ?
    Using all these toys.
     
    * * *
     
    Damn it , Zach cursed as the car idled noisily . A knot of drunk and stumbling Cinco de Mayo revelers stood between them and her . He could see the goddamn building she was in . H e just couldn’t get to it.
    He gunned the engine, but no one seemed to notice . All eyes were on the glitter ing blue and orange sky . Zach didn’t give a crap about the fireworks . He honked the horn. At first , people just booed him . T hen they noticed the flashing blue and red lights . Finally , it must have penetrated their thick skulls that they were hindering a pursuit , for they cleared a path . Zach roared through it, covering the two blocks in seconds.
    Skidding the car to a halt, Zach leapt out . He didn’t bother to check to see whether Grant had even survived the journey .
    “I think we’ve got her stumped!” Warp’s high- pitched voice was a little too much for Zach’s earpiece.
    “Whatever . I asked, like three minutes ago, which entrance is closest to her position?”
    The techno-geek was a child prodigy, or , given his penchant to argue with himself, prodigies . Unfortunately, Warp had the attention span of a gnat.
    “Oh , yeah . North by northwest.”
    Zach turned back to Grant , who was only now extracting himself from the car . “I’ll take the front.”
    “Who named you A gent in C harge?” Grant huffed.
    Zach was in no mood to pull rank . “Establish the perimeter , and then take the back.”
    With out hesitation, Zach charged toward the building . He was so close that he could smell her.
     
    * * *
     
    Ronnie took the stairs two at a time . She had no doubt what the commotion was outside . She was being pursued . And a little too close for her comfort . W hile she climbed, Ronnie continu ed typing into what appeared to be thin air, watching the results of her actions unfold on her lens . This time , the money would be hers for sure.
    Then her least favorite command flashed before her eyes . “Access D enied.”
    “No!”
    “I told you,” Quirk chirped.
    “Stay out of it,” she mumbled as