CHAPTER FOUR
Ten minutes later, Bait and Switch walked down the hallway of the Academy Clinic together, escorted by two Secret Service agents on either side of them. The two agents had met them at the front doors of the Clinic and had insisted on escorting them for ‘security purposes.’ Switch had, as usual, been annoyed at the implication that either of them might pose some sort of threat to the President’s life, but Bait understood. Arachnid’s assassination attempt on the President had come out of nowhere for everyone. No doubt the Secret Service wanted to make sure that no one else tried to take the President’s life under their watch, even if that meant treating innocents like Bait and Switch with more suspicion than was warranted.
At least they haven’t insisted we meet the President i
