Reckoning. Jo Leigh

But, then so was everything else. They would either come up with a way to defeat Omicron, or they wouldn’t. Right now all she could do was spend as much time as possible with Seth.

      “Nate and Tam are on their way,” Boone said. “He called.”

      Harper hadn’t even realized how on edge she’d been about them until her shoulders relaxed.

      “Thank God,” Christie said. “Let me get something to drink, then catch us up, okay?”

      Harper went with her, wishing she could have showered before this meeting.

      “Actually,” Boone continued, “there’s good news for you and Harper. Vince here has generously decided to bankroll us, at least for now. So you two won’t have to go back to that truck stop.”

      Harper looked at Christie and they both grinned like idiots. “Gee, what a shame,” Harper said. “I’ll so miss coming home smelling like burgers and onion rings.”

      “I’m assuming we won’t be laying about eating bonbons,” Christie added.

      Boone shook his head. “I wish you could, but no. There’s work to be done.”

      Harper poured herself a cold soda and Christie went for iced tea. Boone didn’t wait until they returned. He filled them in on their discovery of the chamber, and the biometric hand scanner that stood in their way.