Stop this Grandpa."He slapped her. "You were sent here to learn obedience litle girl. You will learn it as your dad did."Reminded her dad had left as ...oon as he was old enough and never told her or her mother why, she cringed. She fought him but she found her hands being tied with some rawhide to the headboard and before she could protest another piece was shoved in her mouth as a gag. Her grandfather tore her nightdress off. "You have been a very bad girl and Grandpa is going to teach you. Yoi. "After a few more minutes on the phone, Major Murphy finally rang off. We've had two government grants due largely to the success of my algorithms in decryption; and I hoped we would see more. However, I was sure NSA had plenty of experts who could apply those methods to their secret data – they were all available in published form.The first thing I wanted to do was to enter the text into a computer. I started off by scanning it. I did this at home – I generally did all my early research at. "It's Dr. Huntington's house. He was the psychiatrist Grannie made me see after Dad disappeared. He always said I could come over anytime, and I know he's a night owl. He got a job at the Center when it opened, so maybe he can help us out. Leave all the guns in the car. He doesn't like guns." You're just going to ask him to let you into Three Crosses so you can hunt Mitch down and kill him?" Finn asked. "Bet that's gonna go over real well." I didn't say I had a good plan. I'm still working on. ”“Okay, Mom. I love ya.”“Love you too.”With that, she walks out and I head back into the bar. A seat’s still open next to that cute girl with the short hair. I walk over. “Is someone sitting here?” I ask.She turns to me and her face lights up in surprise. “Kai?” she asks with a familiar voice.“Yeah… Do I know you?” She looks familiar, but I definitely would remember meeting a girl like her.“Well, it’s a little complicated… But you look good… Really good,” she says as her eyes travel up and down.