Matt rubbed at his temples and propped his elbows on the edge of his desk. “Are you positive?” Tufo squirmed in his seat then crossed his legs to try to keep from fidgeting. “Yup, I even took a team back out to the desert and we went through Evan’s lab. There’s no sign of his schematics anywhere.” “And he searched everything here?” Mark nodded an affirmative. “Left no stone unturned was his exact words.” Matt stood in a huff and turned to his window, his mind running through possible scenarios. He opened the blinds and observed Dr. Peters in his lab. “Any chance he just misplaced it?” Mark raised his eyes from the thumbnail he had been concentrating on. “This is Evan, Matt.” Matt let the blinds snap back into place and stared at the tiles in his ceiling. “How am I supposed to go to someone like Thorn and ask, ‘Did you steal a set of doomsday weapon plans from our resident evil genius?”
