I couldn't stop staring at the tiny black device beneath my desk, because knowing someone had planted it there made every conversation I'd ever had inside the office suddenly feel exposed.
Derek arrived within minutes, and the first thing he did was tell everyone to step away from the desk.
"Nobody touches it." Derek said and Mia folded her arms.
"Can you get it out?" Mia asked.
"I can, but I want to preserve anything useful first." Derek said.
Jace stood beside me, and I could feel the tension coming off him.
Derek crouched beneath the desk and examined the device without touching it.
"It has its own power source, and whoever installed it wanted it to stay hidden." Derek said.
"Can you tell who planted it?" I asked.
"Not from the device itself." He said.
He carefully removed the
