Working apps

Marsha handed Rick the phone with what seemed to him to be almost reverence. "It's amazing what they can do," she said. "But what's most amazing is that the app is just the tip of the iceberg. Most of what happens is in the cloud."

Rick rubbed his eyes. "Oh, shit."

"Yeah. So, whatever you do, someone at bio-DNA is going to be able to find out."

He thought fast. "Okay, first thing, we're going to need to disable any geo-tracking. No way are we letting them use the app to locate Nicki. Second, we're going to have to check the settings for Misty Storm. If he's doing her also, which I'm sure he is, we have a repeating pattern. And third, I can't believe he hasn't taken photos of his daughter in incriminating positions."

"She's eighteen. It's not illegal to have photos of your eighteen year-old daughter."

"She hasn't been eighteen forever."

Marsha sighed. "Get real, Rick. You're in Texas. No way are they going to convict a dad for having what he'll call consensual sex with someone who looks like Nicki. We've still got that 'master of the house' thing going. Women are property and all."

Rick didn't want to believe that but Marsha was the cop.

"Fine. You've got another copy of the phone, right? If you could just go through the memory and find out what you can, including checking memory locations for possibly erased but not overwritten photos. Also, any texts or voicemail messages that we can use to prove what a creep--"

"Yeah, yeah. I know how to do that stuff. If you're going to be staying with O'Sullivan for a while, I'll bring it to you."

He wasn't sure where he'd be staying. It seemed like every time he felt like he'd found someplace he could hole up in, he'd been rousted out of it. "That sounds great, babe."

"You'll owe me if I find anything." She winked at him.

"I always pay my debts."

"Then be thinking of how you can get me and O'Sullivan into a threesome. 'Cause I like both boys and girls and I've wanted a bite of those huge melons since I first saw her."

That didn't sound bad to Rick, either. "I'll see what I can do."

"You'd better."