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

sounds like several elements are putting two plus two together and coming up with Rowan. If you’re serious about keeping her and her project safe, you better convince her to trust you and IATO, now. Grey got off the vid feed a few minutes ago and he was pretty damn blunt. Rowan doesn’t like taking orders, but I think she’ll listen to your offer.”
    What were the chances he could convince her if he hadn’t been able to get her to trust him before he slept with her? She was well aware of his reputation, and although he admired Rowan more for her persistence after their first meeting, even if she left him without a good-bye note, he wasn’t sure he could ever gain her trust. He’d have to be the kind of man who could talk about himself or stick with one woman for more than two nights. Unless…she learned to trust him for his honesty.
    “Cade, there’s a price on Rowan O’Malley’s head. It’s high. IATO security needs to meet with our Omega team security.”
    So it had come to this. Cade needed to think. The business deal was back on the table and the personal bullshit was on the back burner. COBRA and her life were more important than their feelings. He knew she’d agree.
    “The COBRA project could mean either total disruption or complete security to the cyber world.”
    “I know.” After all this, he still needed to get a hold of her work and convince her he could handle this.
    Cade put all his private thoughts aside. “According to Emily, the other player who replaced U.S. Senator Adam Kincaid is effectively brokering a deal to provide the IMTC (International Muslim Terrorist Coalition) with a computer code to shut down any and all technology without being able to trace it back to the source. Planes, trains, and automobiles, all power grids, military technology, cellular systems—?”
    Jacqui interrupted him. “That would be Rowan’s COBRA project.”
    Cade’s stomach dropped. “It can do all that?”
    “Probably more.”
    “How close is she to completing it?” he asked, hoping to steal a little more time.
    “It’s done, Cade. She called me today…wanted me to cut a deal, well not exactly me. She wants to negotiate a deal with Grey and Omega. They want you on her. In any case, she is in danger, serious danger. She’d be the only one with the password she created who the coalitions could use to get into the system.”
    “Can she protect herself as well as she claims?” Cade hoped the answer was “yes.”
    “Rowen O’Malley comes from generations of rebels. Even though the IRA backed out of terrorist activities before she was born, she trained with her father and grandfather. There isn’t anything she doesn’t know about bomb making or subterfuge, and she certainly knows all the players. Even the new players answer to the old regimes. Recruiting tactics and hiding in plain sight, training and diversionary methods and practices are all part of her like a second skin. She has the international hidey-holes to disappear in and contacts if she needs them.”
    Cade felt a little better knowing she had the knowledge to take care of herself if things got dicey.
    “How did she get involved in the legitimate business world?” For some reason he believed he needed a detailed profile of this woman if he was going to work with her.
    “Her father recommended she focus her efforts on gaining power by making money with technology. And she did. Rich, powerful, skilled, brilliant, and beautiful…her depth of knowledge of cyber terrorism could be deadly or the answer to your worst nightmare.”
    Jacqui’s words paralleled his own thoughts and sent a chill down his spine. Rowan was an anomaly and after spending just the short time that he had with her, he was certain he could bring her around to believe in his team.
    Maybe it was time to contact Mosel Reinhardt—he corrected himself—Ivan Reinhardt. She knew Ivan. Mosel, who formerly posed as an illegal arms dealer, faked his death while actually