The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Emily Hamilton
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- Genre: contemporary romance
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Twenty-seven years of obsessive amateur research had not prepared Cleo
McQueary for how simple it was to break into the Erebus Industries
compound. She’d seen the exclusive news reports, the official behind-thescenes TikToks, the infamous photos of impassive security officers
restraining bereaved family members at the compound gate—Cleo knew
that this place had been crawling with guards and dripping with
unbreakable security measures, once. But now, the only thing protecting
each spiraling level of the circular compound was a dusty steel door, locked
by a decades-old retinal scanner and a series of cascade ciphers. Cleo could
have cracked them all in her sleep, which was a shame—she liked a
challenge.
“Well,” she said, punching the last sequence into the last keypad and
thinking that the rare excuse to wear fingerless gloves with her most
practical pair of coveralls almost made up for the disappointment, “there’s
no turning back now.”
“Corny,” Kaleisha whispered behind her, also looking incredibly heistchic in her black dress and leather jacket, locs tied back in a ponytail and
killer green eyeliner standing out against her dark skin. Cleo stuck her
tongue out. Thanks to Erebus Industries’ bankruptcy, they were the first
people to walk through these long-abandoned doors in a decade; a little
melodrama was absolutely warranted.
Abe fidgeted with the straps of the backpack he’d meticulously packed
with things they might need (Band-Aids) and things they definitely
wouldn’t (Kaleisha’s tarot cards). He was Chinese American, tall enough to
rest his chin on the top of Cleo’s head, and bouncing on the balls of his feet
so rapidly that his floppy black hair was getting in his eyes.
“Actually,” he whispered a little too loudly, “I think this would be the
perfect time to turn back, if we wanted to.”
“Yeah, isn’t this the part where Cleo says, That was easy . . . Too easy?”
Ros said. They tucked a long ginger curl behind the ear that wasn’t adjacent
to their undercut, a smile masking the on-edge jitters that Cleo knew they
were hiding. “And then a bunch of robot ninjas jump out to foil our plan?”
Cleo winked at Ros as the last gate—blazoned, as all the others had been,
with the grayscale sunrise of the Erebus Industries logo—slid open with a
metallic clunk. “Don’t worry. Fighting robot ninjas is the first thing they
teach you in engineering school.”
Kaleisha smacked Abe lightly on the ass to shove him toward the
gateway. “You’re not getting soft on us, are you, Yang?”
“I’ve always been soft, and you love it.”
“I do.”
Behind their backs, Ros made a gagging sound. Cleo mimed a dry heave
back. “Can we focus on how I just hacked the last gate open, you nasties?”
she whined as Abe kissed the top of Kaleisha’s head. “It was very
impressive, probably.”
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