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time we were at GlobalLife?”
    “Yes. I knew it was secured with Drew’s brain waves. And I knew one of you would be able to open it. Well, Ridley knew that.”
    “Were you giving Erik and me clues during that tour of the building?”
    “I was trying to. I told you about the brain wave security feature, but at the time I wasn’t sure what phrase was needed to open the globe. So I gave you several possibilities to practice with. Then on the night of the gala, Drew had a few too many drinks and when we got home, I tried guessing what phrase he would use. I acted like it was just a game. Eventually he got fed up with me trying to guess and he just blurted it out. The next day, he didn’t even remember us talking.”
    “And then you planted that phrase in the announcement letter.” The pieces were coming together in my head as I spoke. “So that’s why you had Drew review it while we were in the lab that day. You knew we were reading Drew’s mind as part of the telepathy exercise.”
    The scene finally made sense. When Drew reviewed the announcement and crossed out the phrase that was needed to access the DNA, that was my clue. He couldn’t say that phrase in his announcement because he would be reading it in the lobby, right next to the globe that held the alien genes.  
    “What about the cipher that Owens gave me?” Erik asked Rachel.  
    “It’s strange because I didn’t know you needed a password once you got the globe open. Drew never mentioned that. But somehow Owens knew. It was just pure luck that we both provided you with the pieces you needed to access the genes.”
    “I assume you asked for the transfer to New York because that’s where GlobalLife is storing more of the alien genes,” Jack said.
    “Yes. Actually, all of the remaining genetic material is there. When Drew was put in charge of the DNA, he placed part of it in the New York facility and the rest in Iceland. But now, since the genes have been stolen from the Iceland facility, GlobalLife is sending the remaining vials in New York back to the headquarters in Sweden, where they’ll be under much tighter security. That’s why I’m in such a hurry to get to New York. The group I’m working with is already there.”
    Dave still seemed suspicious of her story. “How did you know Preston was helping Sam and Erik?”  
    “Ridley discovered it. He noticed the energy spikes that resulted whenever Sam and Erik were around Preston. The spikes indicated they were using telepathy. Everyone at GlobalLife wore those brain wave scramblers so Sam and Erik couldn’t read their thoughts. That meant that we only saw the energy spikes when Sam and Erik were together, talking telepathically to each other. When Ridley saw the energy spikes when Sam was alone with Owens and again when he was alone with Erik, he knew there was something going on.”
    “I can’t imagine Preston would be that careless,” Dave remarked.
    “He didn’t realize how sensitive the equipment was. He figured that if Sam or Erik was just listening to his thoughts, it wouldn’t create much of an energy spike and therefore wouldn’t show up on the GlobalLife energy field monitors. But it did.”
    “How did GlobalLife not find out about this?” I asked.
    “Ridley was able to go into the system and even out those energy spikes.”
    Erik stared at Rachel as she spoke. He had a crush on her back at GlobalLife, but I was sure he found her even more attractive now that he knew she was smart and a spy. “So I’m guessing Rachel isn’t your real name?”
    Rachel smiled. “Actually, it’s Serena but I changed it legally to Rachel years ago so I could join this rebel group without getting caught. It was part of my new identity.”  
    “Does the group you work for know about Sam and Erik?” Jack asked.
    “Yes. But we weren’t aware of the timer in them. Drew told me about that just recently. Trust me, Jack, we would have made sure the timer was turned off in both of them