Chapters (52)
- Copyright
- Dedication
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-One
- Twenty-Two
- Twenty-Three
- Twenty-Four
- Twenty-Five
- Twenty-Six
- Twenty-Seven
- Twenty-Eight
- Twenty-Nine
- Thirty
- Thirty-One
- Thirty-Two
- Thirty-Three
- Thirty-Four
- Thirty-Five
- Thirty-Six
- Thirty-Seven
- Thirty-Eight
- Thirty-Nine
- Forty
- Forty-One
- Forty-Two
- Forty-Three
- Forty-Four
- Forty-Five
- Acknowledgments
- Read More from the Market of Monsters Series
- More Books from HMH Teen
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH on Social Media
She stared up at it, pretending to be another awestruck tourist bumbling around. What she really wanted was a look at the area around it. Escape routes. Visibility. A sense of place.
Dozens of security cameras peppered the side of the building, and she really hoped Diana could hack them—otherwise, their break-in was going to be very short and very unsuccessful.
Kovit went inside and checked the public floor plan. He came back out and shrugged. “It looks like they’re only in three floors of the building. But it’s called the Tácunan Building, so I’m guessing Alberto Tácunan owns it and leases out the other floors.”
Nita nodded. That would make sense. It would both provide more money, as well as a good cover and front of respectability.
But it also meant that when she stole the information, the chance of other people being in the building was high. And she didn’t want witnesses.
“Any other companies in there we should be aware of?” she asked.
“I took a photo.”
He showed it to her, and she peered at the names with suspicion, but she didn’t recognize any of them. They could be anything from harmless accounting firms to fronts for more of Tácunan Law’s illegal operations. She made a frustrated sound at how useless all this was.
As they headed away, Nita was so lost in thought, she almost didn’t hear the beep of her phone. She pulled it out, thinking it was Diana with more information on the security cameras, but it wasn’t.
It was Kovit.
Twenty
NITA STARED at the screen, unwilling to believe it.
Kovit’s face and name were up on INHUP.
She clicked on the link, just to confirm, because maybe it was a mistake, it was too soon, there was supposed to be a week waiting period, this wasn’t supposed to happen. But she knew even before the INHUP page loaded that it wasn’t a mistake.
The entire world was going to be hunting for him now. Millions of people subscribed to the same alerts she did. And those who didn’t would watch the news tonight and see Kovit’s face—it was rare for someone to be added to the list—so it always ended up being a big story. Most of the time, the police killed monsters before this kind of thing needed to go public.