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?"

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

holds out his hand.

the phone, Wendy," he says

phone to my

him on," Hijack

I say, handing the phone

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Alpha Henry. Who is this?" he asks, his gaze

Lane, are you aware that Wendy is

listens while Hijack, aka Alpha Lane, answers

family and very powerful allies. If you do anything at all that puts her in

we will respond accordingly," he says. I've never seen Henry this before. He's protective of me and my family, yes,

to whatever

been warned," he says to Hijack, handing the phone back to me. "I will be speaking

"Fine. Geez!" I say.

phone in my hand a moment longer before turning and heading

put the phone to my ear, walking to my room for some

beautiful. I'm used to dealing with other

"So... Lane?"

If you're going

to stop calling me beautiful and

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

is sending the information on Alpha Leo to your brother. When this goes down, the information I used your computer to find will come to light and you'll be pulled into the

in air.

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

I

he's found and how they intend to

that on my computer?" I

back to the

ended it when it bordered on the illegal.

and only if they were looking

with that?" I

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