Chapter 237

Wendy

"Alpha Henry! What are you doing here?" I ask. My heart does that little flutter thing it always does when I see Henry. This time, though, it's not as strong as it usually is. Maybe Yorrie was right. I needed something to distract me from my infatuation with Alpha Henry, and boy have found it. Or more accurately, I've found them. Plural. More than one distraction.

Yorick arrived home earlier. Since I knew he'd been kicked out, I waited for him. He'd hugged me quickly, then gone straight to Connor's office

where he's been holed up all afternoon.

"I heard about Yorick. I'm here to see what I can do. Some hacker kid is supposed to be calling later with some information."

My phone rings and I pull it out of my pocket. When I see an unknown number, I send it to voicemail.

"They're in..." I begin and my phone starts ringing again.

look at the screen and see the same unknown number. I frown and send it to voicemail again before looking back at Henry.

"Someone wants to talk to you," he says, his eyebrow raised.

I'm about to answer when my phone pings with a text message.

'Answer the phone, beautiful.'

Hijack.

My phone begins ringing again.

"I have to take this. They're in Connor's office."

"A secret admirer?" Henry asks, suddenly very interested.

I hit answer but press the phone against my chest. “No, it's nothing like that."

"What is it like?" Henry asks.

I put the phone to my ear. "Give me a second."

“It's just a friend, Henry. You don't need to go all Alpha on me," I say to him.

"Is this a friend that Connor or Quirin know about?"

friend," I say, standing my ground. Did I

holds out his hand. I

on the phone, Wendy," he says

lift the phone to my ear.

him on,"

say, handing

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Chapter 237

Henry. Who is this?"

Lane, are you aware that

listens while Hijack, aka Alpha

family and very powerful allies. If you do anything at all that puts her in jeopardy, if you hurt her in any

I've never seen Henry this before.

to

phone back to me. "I will be speaking to Connor about this," he says

"Fine. Geez!" I say.

phone in my hand a moment

to my ear, walking to my room for some privacy. Instead of

used to dealing

"So... Lane?"

go there. It was necessary to give him my real name. If you're going to be part of the team, we use our tech

you're going to stop calling me beautiful and start

says, chuckling again. "But I did call you for a reason." "What's that?" I ask, sitting down at

to your brother. When this goes down, the information I used your computer

in air. Holy

won't let you take any heat for this. We all expect that you'll be part of our team next year and we look out for each other. That includes you now as well. There are some things that you'll need to be prepared to answer in court, but for the most part, you were

I need to

me everything that he's found

all of that on

back to

there and ended it when it bordered on the illegal. I also changed your fingerprint so it

fingerprint?" I ask. "Hijackers can, or at least we can bury it so that only someone whose skills rival mine could find it and only if they were looking for it.

okay with that?"

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