“Don’t worry. You won’t be over here that often. This is the central hub for work.”
“Oh.” The relief in her voice was evident, but I knew that when she got back to our house, she might change her mind about setting foot in Pennsylvania.
“So, this is the lobby,” Cap said, motioning around at the expressive artwork. “A few years ago, the whole building was destroyed.”
“Oh. Fire?” she asked.
I cringed the moment he opened his mouth.
“Yeah, you could say that. We were attacked. I gave the signal to burn the place down.”
“You—” Krista stopped in her tracks, staring at my boss. “You burned your own building down?”
“Well, we were attacked,” he said, almost in confusion. “They were after important documentation. Anything in these files could get any one of us killed.”
Stepping forward with a laugh, I clapped him on the shoulder, squeezing extra hard. “Okay! I think that’s enough of the show and tell for the day. Let’s give Krista a chance to get her bearings before we overwhelm her with information.”
“Yeah, that sounds like a plan,” he grinned. “Though, you should probably show her the panic room while you’re here.”
“Panic room?” she whispered.
“Tomorrow,” I insisted. “We’ll do that tomorrow. It’s been a long day, and we really just want to get some shut-eye.”
As I turned to take Krista home, Cap called out one more time, ruining my day.
“Hey! While you were gone, Knight made some upgrades to your house! He was worried about the mafia!”
I raised my thumb over my head, but internally, I was dying. She was going to leave, and there was nothing I could do about it.
36
KRISTA
I wokeup to an alarm blaring, waking me out of a dead sleep that I had just fallen into not more than an hour ago.
“What the hell is that?” I screamed, covering my ears.
Rob threw off the covers and stomped out of the room and down the hall. It was a good minute before the alarms stopped. My heart was still beating out of my chest from the sheer fright of it all. How the hell was I going to get used to living like this?
“What was it?” I asked as Rob walked back into the room, flopping on the bed.
“The evil robot,” he mumbled.
“Robot?”
He nodded in a roundabout way, but that didn’t answer any of my questions.
“Excuse me, but I need more than that.”
He rolled over, looking over tiredly at me. “Have you ever seen those vacuum robots?”
“The ones that are small and roll around the house?”
“Yep. Well, we all have those.”
“Okay,” I said slowly, not understanding why a vacuum would have an alarm.
“Knight programmed them to detect a threat.”