Internally, she thought: 'He's hiding something.'
She did not know what. Strangely, she found that she was, increasingly, over time, one of the things she liked about him.
Taking a deep breath, She shifted the conversation. "There's more."
"Go."
"The Streak situation has developed."
His expression sharpened one degree. "The Vanguard has rolled up two more copycat operations in the last four days."
She laid it out for him. The additional networks impersonating him. The fact that these were not random scammers, they were organized, well-funded, and clearly working from a shared playbook. The uncomfortable observation that they appeared to have access to information about the real Streak that ought not to have been public. She suspected Tiktuk platform itself might have a hand in this...
