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Left Behind: DESECRATION Chapter 17
The Peacekeepers asked if they could search Chang’s apartment. “For what?” he asked.
“Routine,” they told him.
“You won’t find any routine here. I am studying English words new to me and my current favorite is serendipity. That’s what you’ll find here, the opposite of routine.
“Funny. We don’t need your permission. We were just being polite.”
“Of course. My clue was your use of a master key to get me to answer the door.”
While they searched the apartment, Lars set up a high-powered laptop on Chang’s small kitchen table. “I’ll be asking a few questions,” he said.
“No, you won’t.”
“Stop being a smart–alec,” Lars said. “This is my assignment.”
“Do the questions relate to finding a leak from the palace to the suspected mole?”
Lars turned ashen. “You’ve already been interrogated?”
“No, but I have my reservation in with another interlocutor – another new word. You like?”
“Computer!” the other Peacekeeper called out. “Looks like his personal laptop.”
“If you had told me what you were looking for, I could have directed you to it.”
“This your only one?”
Chang was tempted to pretend there was another, but the fun of watching them try to locate it wouldn’t be worth their leaving the place in more of a shambles. He nodded.
“Over here with that,” Lars said.
“I’m so glad you’re here, Lars,” Chang said. “I had everything on that hard drive, and I mean everything. Maybe you won’t feel so bad about losing the interviewing assignment to our boss if you have this project to work on.”
“Project?”
“I crashed the hard drive, and I’ve tried everything.”
“Everything you know.”
“That’s right! That’s why I’m so glad you’re here. I must be missing something, and even if it’s something complex, I know you can solve it.”
“You bet your life I can.”
Chang, of course, was betting his life Lars couldn’t.
Left Behind: DESECRATION Chapter 17
Left Behind: DESECRATION Chapter 17