Trial and Terror (27 page)

She did and Tai took two deep sips. He sighed. “That’s better.” He handed the bottle back to her. “Put the cap back on, please.” She did. “Now, wipe the bottle thoroughly with your shirt.”

“What are you going to do?”

“Get SK off, that’s what I’m going to do.”

Summer shut the computer down.

Tai touched the tender part of his arm. “What now?” he asked.

“I think it’s up to you,” Summer said.

Tai extracted a pair of handcuffs from his blazer pocket. One shackle he cuffed to her wrist, the other to his.

Summer didn’t resist. “You’re arresting me?”

Tai led her to the bedroom and pulled her on to the bed. “Who said anything about arresting you?” he said. “I’m just making sure you don’t run away again.”

He unknotted the sling and tossed it aside, then pushed her shoulders down onto the bed, until she was pinned under him.

Between kisses, he said, “Hang on, Summer, because I’m going to love you today, tomorrow, forever.”

The End

About the Author

Adam L. Penenberg
is a journalism professor at New York University who has written for
Fast Company
,
Forbes
, the
New York Times
, the
Washington Post
,
Wired
,
Slate
,
Playboy
, and the
Economist
. A former senior editor at
Forbes
and a reporter for Forbes.com, Penenberg garnered national attention in 1998 for unmasking serial fabricator Stephen Glass of the
New Republic
. Penenberg’s story was a watershed for online investigative journalism and portrayed in the film
Shattered Glass
(Steve Zahn plays Penenberg).

Penenberg has published several books that have been optioned for film and serialized in the
New York Times Magazine
,
Wired UK
, and the
Financial Times
, and won a Deadline Club Award for feature reporting for his
Fast Company
story “Revenge of the Nerds,” which looked at the future of movie-making. He has appeared on NBC’s
The Today Show
as well as on CNN and all the major news networks, and has been quoted about media and technology in the
Washington Post
, the
Christian Science Monitor
,
USA Today
,
Wired News
,
Ad Age
,
Marketwatch
,
Politico
, and many others.

Wayzgoose Press is proud to present Adam’s novel
Virtually True
, available on Amazon:

True Ailey is a journalist in a strange land, exiled by his network to a damp Southeast Asian republic gouged out a war-ravaged peninsula weeping monsoon tears.
 
When his friend is murdered, True sets out to find the killers, and in the process untangles a vast conspiracy that threatens to upend the global balance of power. Set in the near future, Virtually True takes readers on a wild ride through a world where nothing is what it seems, corporations rule, technology has been woven into the fabric of people’s lives, and information can be both weapon and life-saver.

Award-winning journalist Adam Penenberg, whom Slate called “one of the best-known technology writers in the world,” has peopled a literary thriller with unforgettable characters and crafted a plot worthy of Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, and Martin Cruz Smith.