Shifted Fate (Amy) novel Chapter 443

My head snapped up. “Holy shit.”

My mom furrowed her brows, and Carly turned to me. “You said a bad word.”

I winced. “Sorry baby.” I patted her head. “I’m just excited.”

She looked at the jumbled letters. “Is this what we were looking for?” She scrunched up her little face and then looked back at me. “I don’t understand it.”

I laughed. “It’s a code. I’ll teach it to you.” I pulled out a random paper and flipped it over. I wrote the alphabet in two lines, matching the letters on top of each other. A over N and M over Z. “Then you just swap the letters.”

By then, my mom was staring over my shoulder. “That’s it?” She looked down at the code and then back at me. “But that’s child’s play.” She looked at me. “He used that to hide his secret?”

I laughed. “Yep. And it is. It’s the way Rick writes secret notes with Abby. I’m assuming he did it this way because he assumed no one would think of a code this simple.”

“For something this important?” She looked down at the paper. She looked back at me with confusion and a little bit of worry on her face. “It is important, right?”

I laughed again and nodded. “This is everything.” I leaned over and kissed Carly’s face.

“Ew.” She giggled as she wiped the pretend spit from her face. “We did it though? You got what you needed?”

I smiled. “We did!” I jumped up to my feet, pulling Carly with me, and then I swung her in a circle. “Wohooooo.” She squealed as we spun and my mom started to laugh. Toya and Wendy ran into the room and stopped on the edges to watch Carly and me spin.

“What’s going on?” Wendy chuckled as Carly giggled.

“Carly and Mom helped me solve the big issue about Vince.” Wendy’s face eyes widened and Toya’s mouth dropped open.

“Say you swear.” Toya ran out and swung Carly from me. “Did you save us, baby girl?”

I laughed as Toya swung her into the air, nearly hitting the ceiling. Carly squealed again and then we dropped to the ground. Wendy walked over and snagged Carly’s hand. “Well, since you saved the day, you get to pick what we have for lunch and dinner.” Carly cheered as Wendy led her to the kitchen.

Toya looked after them and I watch her face went from proud to serious as she turned back to me. “This is what you needed for his servers?”

I nodded and felt my face split. “And it’s perfect timing.”