She looked up as she finished. “This is why global domination is within your sights.”
He only smiled. “Do you need a hand engaging the holo feature?”
“Why would I? I can figure out— Yes.” Why fight it?
She sat again, went after the waffles. “Thanks.”
“You’re welcome.”
“Where’s the cat?” she wondered. “There’s ham on the plate, and he’s not trying to sneak over and steal it.”
“Early start for us. I imagine he’s down with Summerset getting his belly full. He’ll be disappointed he missed his chance here. Will you contact Eldena, let her know you’re coming?”
“No point risking she has a change of heart and goes soft on Cohen. She’s pissed, but people get over being pissed. Do you still want to watch when I have Cohen in the box?”
“Let me know when you’re bringing him into Interview, and I’ll see if I can manage it.”
“Good enough.”
She polished off breakfast, went into her closet to face wardrobe.
Spring tease or not, she wanted to look mean, and that said black to her. Black pants, black tee, black jacket in thin leather because leather said mean when you wore it right.
Add black boots and a scowl, and there you had it.
When she stepped out to strap on her weapon harness, Roarke lifted his eyebrows. “Going for the kill, are we?”
“That’s exactly right.” She snagged her ’link, read the text from Whitney. “Ten minutes. Shit.”
“Plenty of time.” He rose and went with her to her office.
“You’ll want to stand, I imagine.”
“Yeah.”
“Where?”
“Ah…”
“With your command center at your back rather than the room itself. Work mode. Order open operations. I could do it, yes, but it’ll stick better if you do it yourself.”
“Yeah, yeah. Dallas, open operations.”
The center flashed on. The D and C unit hummed and then went to waiting quiet.
“I assume Whitney’s still at home?”
“Yeah, it’s early.”
“Then you need to order the holo option, follow that with when you want it to begin, and where you want the uplink.”
She could do that, and did.
“All right then, last, as he’s your superior, you tell it to wait for the uplink from Whitney, then proceed. If you were including others, you’d simply list the names and locations, and when you wanted to bring them in.”
“Got it. Hold for uplink from Whitney, Commander Jack, then proceed with holo communication.”
“Well done.” He cupped her face in his hand, kissed her. “If you’d think of electronics as tools instead of the enemy, you’d have an easier time.”